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Malware

Abbreviation for Malicious software, it is a software designed to harm or secretly access a computer system without the owner's informed consent.

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Plan a meeting dialogue box

Software; Malware

Use the Plan a Meeting dialogue box to plan meetings and identify the people and resources you want to attend the meeting.

Print dialogue box

Software; Malware

Use the Print dialogue box to select a printer, the number of copies to print, and many other options.

Sent items folder

Software; Malware

The Sent Items folder contains copies of e-mail you have sent.

Server

Software; Malware

A server is a computer that provides shared resources to other computers on a network.

Elk Cloner

Software; Malware

Elk Cloner was the first computer virus known to have spread in the wild. In 1982, Richard Skrenta, then fifteen years old, wrote the virus for the Apple II operating system, which was stored on ...

Denial of service (DOS)

Software; Malware

A denial of service (DoS) attack is an incident in which a user or organisation is deprived of the services of a resource they would normally expect to have. In a distributed denial-of-service, large ...

Bugbear

Software; Malware

Bugbear is a computer virus that spread in early October, 2002, infecting thousands of home and business computers. It is similar to an earlier virus, Klez, in terms of its invasion approach and ...

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