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1. What is Malware?
Malware is a term to describe a virus.
2. What is adware?

A software that contains ads and makes money for the people who wrote the program.

3. Give some examples of adware

 Fireball
 Appearch
 DollarRevenue
 Gator

4. What is spyware?
Collects information about you and sends it to advertisers. This information can be the webs or
files you open to discovering bank accounts and card numbers and sending it to undisclosed
recipients.

5. How do you get rid of adware and spyware?

You should have an up-to-date anti-spyware scanner on your computer. This will detect
and destroy any viruses on the computer.

6. Do some research to see where the word malware comes from.

The term is from an Ancient Greek story of the trojan horse used to invade the city of
Troy sneakily. Trojan horses are generally spread by social engineering, for example,
where a user is duped into executing an e-mail attachment disguised to be unsuspicious.

Alex
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