Internet Safety

2. a type of malware that collects information about users without their knowledge, often to track browsing habits and to create pop-up advertisements. Along with invading your privacy it can sometimes interfere with a computer's functions.
5. occurs when malware or spyware replaces your browser's home page with its own in order to force more hits to a particular website. Viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware and keystroke logging snoopware are all considered malware. Sometimes adware and freeware can also be malicious.
9. a technique used to redirect a legitimate website's traffic to another illegitimate website in order to gain access to a user's personal information.
10. horse a malware that appears to be benign or desirable and thus tricks the user into allowing the program access to their computer, usually through a download or email attachment.

1. a self-replicating software program that is designed to infect a computer by rapidly spreading from one file to another sometimes causing great harm. it is spread by humans when they copy or add email attachments of infected files.
3. mail or instant message scams that are disguised to look like official communications from a legitimate website. They fool users into providing sensitive information like passwords, credit card details, etc.
4. commonly used by pornographic sites, this technique keeps visitors from leaving a website by locking them into a window, opening multiple windows on the desktop, or relaunching their website in a window that can't be closed.
6. a technique that tricks users into clicking on a malicious link by adding the link to a transparent layer over what appears to be a legitimate web page. Users think they are clicking on buttons or links in the legitimate page, when in reality they are clicking on the concealed links in the hidden page and often providing access to confidential information in the process.
7. an intentionally malicious software or code that is designed to damage your computer or collect information without your knowledge.
8. unsolicited email or junk mail, much of which contains money scams or sexual content.
11. hoax an email chain letter that warns of impending viruses and tries to scare users into forwarding and continuing the hoax email.