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Flashcards by Grace Jenman, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Grace Jenman
over 8 years ago
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| Antivirus | Anti-virus software is a program or set of programs that are designed to prevent, search for, detect, and remove software viruses, and other malicious software like worms, trojans, adware, and more. These tools are critical for users to have installed and up-to-date because a computer without anti-virus software installed will be infected within minutes of connecting to the internet. |
| Spyware Protection | Programs that secretly record what you do on your computer are called spyware. They can be used for some perfectly legitimate purposes, but the majority of spyware is malicious. Its aim is usually to capture passwords, banking credentials and credit card details - and send them over the internet to fraudsters. |
| Firewall | In computing, a firewall is a network security system that watches and controls the incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules. A firewall typically known as a barrier between a trusted, secure internal network and another outside network, such as the Internet, that is assumed to not be secure or trusted. |
| Disk Formatting | Disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk or USB flash drive for initial use. In some cases, the formatting operation may also create one or more new file systems. |
| File Transfer | The File Transfer (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer computer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and uses separate control and data connections between the client and the server. |
| Defragmentation | in the maintenance of file systems, defragmentation is a process that reduces the amount of fragmentation. It does this by physically organizing the contents of the mass storage device used to store files into the smallest number of contiguous regions (fragments). |
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