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| Email with no purpose, usually advertisement for a product or newsletter | |
| Scams in which emails are sent with the intent of tricking people into transferring money over to the sender | |
| Chain letter based emails which either send warnings of fake viruses or lead to viruses entering the computer | |
| A piece of software which can enter a computer, latch onto a program and reproduces, attaching to other programs and eating them away | |
| Software that replicates itself by feeding off of holes in a security system | |
| Is set to activate after a set amount of time, after which it overloads your RAM and fries it | |
| Code which is activated by an event and then 'detonates' and destroys the computer, possibly by clearing the hard drive | |
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| A program which pretends to be something but damages your computer when opened | |
| Using fake emails and websites to take account information for identity theft | |
| An ad for a product, service, or website that emerges on your internet browser | |
| A program installed secretly onto a computer that is used to collect information such as passwords | |
| Programming that can be used to detect and remove viruses | |
| Don't open suspicious emails, avoid clicking on links you don't trust, don't accept 'prizes' from ads | |
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