Released on: March 8, 2008, 6:59 am

Press Release Author: Anureet Singh Bhanot

Industry: Computers

Press Release Summary: Most people who think they know all about spyware, Trojans,
viruses, and other malware really don\'t. Take this quiz to make sure you know who
your enemies are.

This quiz tests your knowledge of five of the most common kinds of malware, the
software you don\'t want on your computer: Trojan, worm, virus, spyware, and adware.
Keep in mind that there are at least seven other kinds of malware we know about.

Press Release Body: Most people who think they know all about spyware, Trojans,
viruses, and other malware really don\'t. Take this quiz to make sure you know who
your enemies are.

This quiz tests your knowledge of five of the most common kinds of malware, the
software you don\'t want on your computer: Trojan, worm, virus, spyware, and adware.
Keep in mind that there are at least seven other kinds of malware we know about.

The answers are located at the end of the quiz.

1. Which of the following is most likely to make your computer stop working?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware

2. Which of the following is not a stand-alone program?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware

3. Which of the following is most likely to send spam emails from your computer?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware

4. Which of the following is lest likely to be detected with standard antivirus
software?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware

5. Which of the following is most likely to come with other malware?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware

6. Which of the following is bundled with the peer-to-peer file-sharing software,
Kazaa?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware

7. Which of the following is most likely to install a \"backdoor\" internet connection?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware

8. Which of the following is most likely to be involved in a denial-of-service attack?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware

9. Which of the following is the only malware publicly documented as having been
employed by the FBI to bring a suspect to trial?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware

10. Which of the following is most likely to steal your identity?
a. Trojan
b. Worm
c. Virus
d. Spyware
e. Adware

Answers:

1. c. virus. Trojans, worms, spyware, and adware all depend on your computer staying
up and running. They use your computer\'s resources to accomplish whatever their
designer intended, such as sending emails, displaying advertising, or stealing
information from your computer. Viruses, however, are usually created by vandals who
just want to damage as many computers as possible.

2. c. virus. Viruses are not stand-alone programs. Just as biological viruses must
take over the cells of their host in order to function and reproduce; computer
viruses must take over one or more files of the computer on which they are stored.
Trojans, worms, spyware, and adware are all stand-alone programs that can run
without the help of another application, though they often come bundled with other
applications as a decoy, or with other malware.

3. b. worm. Worms are stand-alone programs that are often used to send spam emails,
or emails containing viruses. Trojans often contain worms which are then installed
for the purpose of sending spam emails, but the worms are what actually send the
emails.

4. e. adware. In the strictest sense, adware is rarely patently illegal or
destructive, and so antivirus software makers have traditionally avoided treating it
as malware. Adware designers are usually large advertising companies with hundreds
of millions of dollars, and they take care to insert end-user licensing agreements
(EULA) that supposedly mean that the software is installed with permission. Also,
adware will not usually do anything more destructive than show advertising.
Nonetheless, adware can quickly multiply on a computer, hogging system resources and
causing a computer to slow down or even malfunction. That\'s why most anti-spyware
software makers target adware as well.

5. a. Trojan. By definition, Trojans bear other malware within them, just as the
mythical wooden worse bore Greek warriors. The malware can be viruses, worms,
spyware, or adware.

6. e. adware, though d. spyware, is also correct. Kazaa\'s developers, Sharman
Networks, make most of their money from the advertising shown by the included
adware. The adware typically runs even when the Kazaa software is not in use.
Sharman Networks has adamantly denied that the adware that comes with Kazaa is
spyware, since, like most adware, it comes with an end-user license agreement that
says the user grants permission for the software to be installed. In reality, few
Kazaa users, until recently, were aware of just how much adware was being installed
on their machines (as much as a dozen or more). Plus, the adware does monitor your
internet usage, and so is spyware in the strictest sense.

7. b. worm. Worms most commonly install a \"backdoor\" internet connection in order to
send out data (for instance, spam emails or requests to remote servers) undetected.

8. b. worm. Worms, which most commonly install a \"backdoor\" internet connection on
the host computer, are perfect for sending out the millions of server requests
needed to achieve a denial-of-service attack. A denial-of-service attack is when a
server is maliciously sent so many hits that it is overwhelmed and cannot continue
to operate.

9. a. Trojan. The Trojan \"Magic Lantern\" was famously used to install monitoring
software on the computer of a suspect who was later brought to trial partly on the
strength of the evidence gathered.

10. e. Spyware. Spyware is malware that collects information from your computer and
sends it to another remote machine, so by definition any software that steals your
identity is spyware. However, spyware is often installed on your computer by a
Trojan, or sent to you by another computer infected with a worm, so other kinds of
malware pose an indirect threat of identity theft as well.

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