Across
- 2. a modem is a communications device that can be either internal or external to your computer
- 3. this is software that spies on your computer
- 4. a cache stores recently-used information that can be accessed extremely fast
- 6. it is used to describe the virtual world of computers
- 8. a computer firewall limits the data that can pass through it and protects a networked server
- 11. horse- these are programs that masquerade as regular programs
- 12. computer viruses are small programs that can negatively affect the health of your computer
- 13. Browser- is the program that people use to access the world wide web
Down
- 1. a cookie is data that gets sent to your computer by a web server that records your actions on a certain website
- 3. a junk email
- 5. the amount of data you can send through a network or modem
- 7. Engine- they index millions of of sites on the web
- 9. Wide Web- the web consists of pages that can be accessed using a web browser
- 10. consists of many different networks and computers
