Medium-level security! You know the threat that looms out there for every Internet user. Maybe you have already been victim of one of the multitude of viruses that destroys or steals personal data. But your counter-attack doesn't stretch past the bare minimum (free antivirus, basic firewall, questionable emails deleted). Well, that's just not enough! The more you know about the craftiness of hackers, the better you'll know how to protect yourself and avoid any mishap.
1. Knowing that something is called a polymorphic virus is useless, knowing how to detect one and eradicate it is.
2. According my research a batch virus is a batch file (extension bat) and not a C++ program.
3. There is absolutely no support that Linux is more secure than Windows. Viruses are written for the largest target. Now with OSX being more used, it has become a larger target, so we are now seeing MAC viruses. I can actually make a plausible argument that Linux is more insecure - consider: Linux is open source; therefore that source code can be examined to find any holes. Windows is closed source, therefore to find holes either a trial or reverse engineering method must be employed.
Fort Knox also 14/15, but to tell you the truth I got lucky with:
1. What is the name of the language used by hackers to find security vulnerabilities in a web page? Because I didn't know. Programing is not my forte.
2. Out of the total amount of emails being sent across the world at any one moment, what percentage of them is actually spam? I got it right but I thought it was something else.
So my result would have been 12/15. Not bad anyways
joe53
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April 27th, 2012 11:00
Fort Knox here also. (No bullion, though ...) :emotion-1:
Annie70
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April 27th, 2012 13:00
Medium-level security! You know the threat that looms out there for every Internet user. Maybe you have already been victim of one of the multitude of viruses that destroys or steals personal data. But your counter-attack doesn't stretch past the bare minimum (free antivirus, basic firewall, questionable emails deleted). Well, that's just not enough! The more you know about the craftiness of hackers, the better you'll know how to protect yourself and avoid any mishap.
msgale
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April 27th, 2012 14:00
1. Knowing that something is called a polymorphic virus is useless, knowing how to detect one and eradicate it is.
2. According my research a batch virus is a batch file (extension bat) and not a C++ program.
3. There is absolutely no support that Linux is more secure than Windows. Viruses are written for the largest target. Now with OSX being more used, it has become a larger target, so we are now seeing MAC viruses. I can actually make a plausible argument that Linux is more insecure - consider: Linux is open source; therefore that source code can be examined to find any holes. Windows is closed source, therefore to find holes either a trial or reverse engineering method must be employed.
Bugbatter
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April 27th, 2012 17:00
Michael, I did not write the quiz. I suggest that you complain to the author; not to us. We post these things just for fun. Do you ever have fun?
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April 28th, 2012 08:00
Fort Knox also 14/15, but to tell you the truth I got lucky with:
1. What is the name of the language used by hackers to find security vulnerabilities in a web page? Because I didn't know. Programing is not my forte.
2. Out of the total amount of emails being sent across the world at any one moment, what percentage of them is actually spam? I got it right but I thought it was something else.
So my result would have been 12/15. Not bad anyways
Bugbatter
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April 28th, 2012 11:00