Across
- 2. A virus in which if anyone attempted to view an infected sector, the virus would replace it with the clean, original version of the sector
- 6. A malicious program disguised inside another program which seems beneficial or harmless
- 7. The act of a computer virus attaching itself to another computer program
- 8. An independent program which multiplies itself by copying a segment of itself onto another computer
- 10. A computer worm which copies different segments of itself to computers linked together in a network
- 12. A large, frequently run program the virus is attached to
- 15. The malicious activity a computer virus or worm is designed to perform
Down
- 1. program allows users to see exactly what is starting up when the computer boots
- 3. A virus which copies itself onto a computer off of a disk when the computer is booted up; when someone else inserts a disk into the computer, the virus is downloaded
- 4. the first computer virus created Rich Skrenta in 1982
- 5. A malicious computer program created by a user with objectives to harm or steal another’s property
- 9. A fairly common virus which affects small Word® automatic functions
- 11. A computer worm which copies itself to another computer in a network and then deletes itself completely from the previous computer it was contained on
- 13. the first computer worm to be distributed over a network without other users being aware of its presence (in 1988)
- 14. this virus was created by a child in 1993, devastating many computers