Viruses

Question 1

What is a Computer Virus?

Answer 1

Malicious code that runs on a machine without the user’s knowledge

Question 2

What is a Boot Sector virus?

Answer 2

A virus that is stored in the boot sector of a hard drive and is then loaded into memory whenever the computer boots up

Question 3

What is a Macro virus?

Answer 3

A virus that is implanted inside another document so that when that document is opened by the user, the virus is executed

Question 4

What is a Program virus?

Answer 4

Tries to find programs or application files to infect with their malicious code

Question 5

What is a Multipartite virus?

Answer 5

A virus that can both place itself in the boot sector and install itself in a program, where it can be run every time the computer starts up

Question 6

What is an Encrypted virus?

Answer 6

Designed to hide itself from being detected by encrypting its malicious code or payloads to avoid detection by any antivirus software

Question 7

What is a Polymorphic virus?

Answer 7

Advanced version of an encrypted virus, but instead of just encrypting the contents it will actually change the virus’ encryption code each time it is executed by altering the decryption module in order for it to evade detection

Question 8

What is a Metamorphic virus?

Answer 8

Able to rewrite themselves entirely before it attempts to infect a given file

Question 9

What is a Stealth virus?

Answer 9

Technique used to prevent the virus from being detected by the anti-virus software

Question 10

What is an Armored virus?

Answer 10

Have a layer of protection to confuse a program or a person who’s trying to analyze it

Question 11

What is a Hoax virus?

Answer 11

A false warning or message that attempts to scare our end users into taking some kind of undesirable action on their system