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Prevention
100
Windows 7 includes an application called this, which helps defend against spyware by scanning the places where it most commonly infiltrates a computer. Spyware is typically a program that is installed with other software that the user deliberately downloads and installs.
What is Windows Defender?
100
This is a software program that protects a computer by allowing certain types of network traffic in and out of the system while blocking others.
What is a firewall?
100
This is a type of software that gathers information about computer users and transmits it back to the attacker.
What is spyware?
100
These are applications that users inadvertently download and run can open a connection to a computer on the Internet, which enables an attacker on the outside to run programs or store data on the system.
What is a Trojan Horse?
100
Some symptoms of this is poor system performance, computer stops responding frequently, default home or default search pages change, unexpected pop-ups, or files have become corrupted.
What is malware?
200
This is a program that can copy itself and infect a computer without the user’s consent or knowledge.
What is a virus?
200
This encryption technology uses the same key to encrypt and decrypt data.
What is symmetric encryption?
200
This is a self-replicating program that replicates itself to other computers over the network without any user intervention.
What is a worm?
200
This component is usually built into a laptop computer and used by BitLocker to store cryptographic information.
What is the Trusted Platform Module (TPM)?
200
This type of encryption uses a different key to encrypt and decrypt data.
What is asymmetric encryption?
300
If you have a laptop that does not include TKP, you can use this instead.
What is a USB?
300
Protecting Windows 7 computers against malware is a constant struggle between the attackers who create the malicious software and the people who design protective software for them. As a result, Windows Defender relies on continual updates to these, which determine what the program should scan and how.
What is its definitions?
300
This is the process of converting data into a format that cannot be ready by another user.
What is encryption?
300
IPsec includes a connection establishment routine, during which computers authenticate each other before transmitting data, and uses a technique called tunneling, in which data packets are encapsulated within other packets for their protection. To configure IPSec connections, use this.
What is the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security?
300
This is a program that gives some remote user unauthorized control of a system or initiates an unauthorized task.
What is a backdoor?
400
You can uses this encryption technology to encrypt a USB flash drive.
What is BitLocker To Go?
400
This is the location of the Action Center in Windows 7.
What is the task bar?
400
These are a form of social engineering that plays on people’s ignorance and fear by using emotive language. It may tell people to delete key system files that make the system work properly or tell you to download software from the Internet to clean the virus.
What is a virus hoax?
400
These are the two best things you can do to protect yourself from viruses.
What is; Keep your system up-to-date with the newest security patches and use an up-to-date anti-virus package.
400
This encryption technology encrypts data but cannot decrypt it?
What is the hash function?
500
This is a software or hardware device designed to gain administrator-level control over a computer system without being detected.
What is a rootkit?
500
If you are part of a domain, you should configure this so that you can recover files encrypted with EFS
What is designate and define Recovery Agents?
500
After installing Windows, check Windows Update to see if Microsoft has any updates including fixes, patches, service packs, and device drivers, and apply them to the Windows system. However, this is not a part of the Windows Updates.
What is Adobe Reader?
500
Microsoft released this with Windows 7. It checks computers running Windows for infections by specific, prevalent malicious software.
What is the Malicious Software Removal Tool?
500
Like the Network and Sharing Center, this is a centralized console that enables users and administrators to access, monitor, and configure the various Windows 7 security mechanisms. The primary function is to provide an automatic notification system that alerts users when the system is vulnerable.
What is the Action Center?