Computer Virus Objective Type Questions and Answers

21 Virus that fool a user into downloading and /or executing them by pretending to be useful applications are also sometimes called

A Cracker

B Trojan Horses

C key logger

D worm

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Answer: Trojan Horses

22 Antivirus software is an example of

A a security utility

B an operating system

C An office suite

D business software

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Answer: a security utility

23 ….are often delivered to a PC through an email attachment & are often designed to do harm

A E-mail messages

B Portals

C Spam

D Viruses

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Answer: Viruses

24 ….viruses are often transmitted by a floppy disk left in the floppy drive

A Boot sector

B Logic bomb

C Trojan horse

D Script

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Answer: Boot sector

25 An anti virus is

A application

B computer

C program code

D company name

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Answer: program code

26 Which virus spread in application software ?

A Anti virus

B Macro virus

C Boot virus

D File virus

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Answer: Macro virus

27 First boot sector virus is

A Computed

B Mind

C Brain

D Elk cloner

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Answer: Brain

28 The first computer virus is

A HARLIE

B PARAM

C The Famous

D Creeper

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Answer: Creeper

29 What is the most common way to get a virus in your computer ‘s hard disk

A By opening emails

B By uploading pictures from mobile phones to the computer

C By installing games from their CDROMS

D None of the above

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Answer: By opening emails

30 A computer virus is

A A virus that affects health of human beings

B A computer program that replicate itself

C Both of the above

D None of the above

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Answer: A computer program that replicate itself

31 _______ is the part of malware such as worms or viruses which performs the malicious action; deleting data, sending spam or encrypting data.

A Payload

B Spamming

C Exploits

D Scams

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Answer: Payload

32 _________ is the action of recording the keys struck on a keyboard, typically covertly, so that the person using the keyboard is unaware that their actions are being monitored.

A Keylogging

B Spamming

C Denial of service

D Exploits

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Answer: Keylogging

33 The attack that focuses on capturing small packets from the network transmitted by other computers and reading the data content in search of any type of information is ____

A Eavesdropping

B Exploits

C Scams

D Denial of service

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Answer: Eavesdropping

34 _________ are computer programs that are designed by attackers to gain root or administrative access to your computer.

A Backdoors

B Rootkits

C Malware

D Antiware

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Answer: Rootkits

35 What is the software called which when get downloaded on computer scans your hard drive for personal information and your internet browsing habits?

A Spyware

B Antiware

C Backdoors

D Malware

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