Phishing~one method frequently used by identity thieves to obtain your personal information
Disinfection~is the process of removing a computer virus A Polymorph~a type of virus
A Bug~an error in a program
A computer virus~a program that replicates by appending a piece of its code to an otherwise harmless executable file
A Worm~another name for a virus that infects a computer and sends copies of itself to other computers A Spider~a program that catalogs Web sites
A Hacker~a person who attempts to get unauthorized access to a computer or restricted data.
A EULA~a customer-vendor agreement that describes your rights and limitations related to software Registry~the place where the device drivers settings for Microsoft Windows are stored A hard boot~also called a Cold Boot BIOS~the another name for the Basic Input Output System BIOS~the built in software that determines what a computer can do without accessing a disk
POST~Power-On Self Test
A Firewall~a program designed to monitor network connections and shield a computer from remote intruders
A Cookie~used to automatically complete words on a previously visited web page form.
A Cookie~a well known mechanism for storing information about an internet user on their local computer Captcha~a type of protection that requires users to enter the letters seen in an image A CD~an example of an optical backup medium
A Track~a concentric circle on a hard disk surface A DMA Channel~where an I/O device send data directly to memory, bypassing the CPU
DOS~another name for the Disk Operating System OS/2~the OS developed by IBM and Microsoft The kernal~the central component of any OS The Master Boot Record~exactly 512 bytes long and occupies one sector
Shadow Ram~when a ROM chip, such as BIOS copies itself into RAM An IRQ~a line of motherboard bus that a hardware device can use to signal the CPU that the device needs attention A parallel printer port~connected by 9 pins Fdisk~a Windows 9x and DOS utility used to partition a hard drive
The Active Partition~the part of a hard drive used to boot the OS FireWire~also known as IEEE 1394 PCI~a type of slot on the motherboard Incremental Backup~the one that clears the archive bit A File System~responsible for storing files and folders on secondary storage devices
High-level formatting~the type of formatting that builds a file system for each logical drive
A Low-level format~ where the hard drive has tracks and sectors physically written to it A Glitch~a minor electrical bug
AMD~a type of CPU. A password~made more secure by using a mixture of letters, number and punctuation symbols
Botnet activity~where your machine will run backdoor software that accepts remote connections A CMOS setting~used when the computer is booted HCL~the way to check if a driver will work in Windows XP/2000 A CPU~able to access hardware devices via the I/O address or port address
A DIP switch~the first thing to change when installing an IDE hard drive
A hard drive~broken down into one or more partitions
32GB~the size of largest supported FAT32 volume for Windows 2000 and XP
Windows XP~the upgrade from Windows 2000
Windows Vista~the upgrade from Windows XP A Gui~another term for an icon driven interface The Desktop~the screen that appears showing menus, icons and commands Autodetection~the way a BIOS detects the new drive and selects the correct drive capacity and configuration Java~an example of a computer language The decimal number 7~the binary number 111 The decimal number 25~the binary number 00011001
vers~the DOS command that shows the the current OS version
dir *.*~the DOS command that shows all the files in a directory
copy~the DOS command that duplicates files
type~the DOS command that displays files
ren~the DOS command that changes the name of a file
dir /w~the DOS command that displays files across the screen cls~the DOS command that clears the screen