IC3 Lesson 26 Vocabulary

2. Virus that makes many copies of itself, resulting in the consumption of system resources that slows down or actually halts a task
5. Format originally developed to facilitate the syndication of news articles and now widely used to share the contents of blogs
6. Process that can be used to cut down on or eliminate most junk mail
8. Junk e-mail
9. Dishonestly obtaining mone, property, information, or other things of value, or to cause loss.
10. Refers to the good manners and proper behaviors when communication through electronic media
13. A high-level method of security that matches a fingerprint, voice pattern, or the iris or retina of the eye to the entry originally stored in the system
16. An attempt to deceive an audience into believing something false is real
17. Used in blogs and other informational sites to simplify the search process

1. Virus triggered by the appearance or disappearance of specified data
3. Illicit business model where profits are based on the investor's ability to recruit other individuals who are enrolled to make payments to their recruiters
4. A telecommunications system that permits the live exchange and sharing of information between two or more people
7. A virus that does not cause its damage until a certain date or until the system has been booted a certain number of times
11. Using e-mail messages for personal information scams
12. A program that has been written usually by a hacker, to cause corruption of data on a computer
14. A virus that does something different from what it is expected to do
15. Stories that at one time could have been partly true, but have grown form constant retelling into a mythical yarn