The name of a program for the retrieval of data, files, or documents from a database or network, esp. the Internet.
What is a search engine?
100
A website used to get specific information about a topic. Similar to Google or a search engine.
What is Boolify?
100
Any software package which automatically plays, displays, or downloads advertisements to a computer.
What is adware?
100
A drive that you can add to the inside of your tower to back up the hard drive.
What is a slave drive?
100
The part of the computer where you plug in your flash drive.
What is a usb port?
200
When someone uses your personal information such as your name, Social Security number, credit card number, or other identifying information, without your permission, to commit fraud or other crimes?
What is identity theft?
200
A program used to create tables and graphs.
What is Microsoft Excel?
200
A file that can be added to an e-mail, like a document, photograph, or song. Sometimes attachments carry viruses, so do not open attachments from unknown parties
What is an Attachment?
200
The generic term for mechanical, electrical, and electronic component of a computer are called what.
What is a Hardware?
200
A U.S. bill introduced by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to fight online trafficking in copyrighted intellectual property and counterfeit goods.
What is Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)?
300
The part of the computer that connects to the phone lines so that you can go on the Internet.
What is modem?
300
A list of blogs on a blog that a blogger recommends to other bloggers
What is a blogroll?
300
A self-replicating malware computer program, which uses a computer network to send copies of itself to other computers on the network.
What is a worm?
300
The brain of the computer or central processing unit.
What is the CPU?
300
A reorganization of the 2010 COICA (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act) that did not pass legislation.
What is Protect Internet Protocol Act (PIPA)?
400
A virus that commonly affects Microsoft.
What is the Macro virus?
400
A code that you put in the HTML tab to put a move or clip on a blog
What is a embed?
400
An online scam that attacks the browser's address bar. Users type in what they think is a valid website address and are unknowingly redirected to an illegitimate site that steals their personal information.
What is Pharming?
400
The permanent memory that is built in your computer.
What is a ROM?
400
The commonly used fruit name for a computer in television shows other than Apple because it is copy righted
What is Pear?
500
A browser that preforms well with big words, but has not caught on like Internet Explorer or Google.
What is Opera?
500
A Spam filter that prevents spam on a blog
What is Akismet?
500
A destructive program that masquerades as an application. The software initially appears to perform a desirable function for the user prior to installation, but steals information or harms the system.
What is Trojan horse?
500
A type of printer that forms letters on the page by shooting tiny electrically charged droplets of ink.
What is an Ink-Jet printer?
500
The creator of the Stop Online Piracy Act (sopa); a U.S. representative who is part of Texas’s 21’st district.