Lucy, a 55 year-old woman, was not a technically savvy person.
She did not
install or enable any applications on her computer, and only used it for looking up recipes and knitting patterns. After some time, Lucy’s computer started giving her problems. It often displayed the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and unwanted windows kept popping up whenever she went online. When a computer technician checked Lucy’s computer, it was discovered that her computer was infected with malware. Which inbuilt Windows software should Lucy have enabled to prevent malware infection in her computer? a. Task manager b. Jump lists c. Simple file sharing d. Windows Defender Sally is a 16-year-old high school student who is extremely attached to her laptop. She uses it to download and watch episodes of her favorite sitcom. While watching one of the episodes, her laptop switched off automatically a couple of times. Suspecting a malware infection, she opened the antivirus software on her laptop and chose a technique, which examined all files on the memory and hard disk in order to identify and locate the malware. Which antivirus technique did Sally employ? a. Bookmarks method b. Integrity checking c. Heuristics analysis d. Scanning Which of the following terms refers to malicious software that is specifically built to target mobile phones and smartphones systems? a. Unmanaged applications b. Broken cryptography c. Mobile malware d. Phishing