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Flashcards by Kai Stovell Unkn, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Kai Stovell Unkn
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Anti-Virus | Anti-Virus Software is designed to detect and destroy computer viruses. |
| Spyware Protection | Spyware Protection are 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 | Firewall protects from unauthorized access |
| 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 | File transfer is a generic term for the act of transmitting files over a computer network like the Internet. There are numerous ways and protocols to transfer files over a network. Computers which provide a file transfer service are often called file servers. |
| De-Fragmentation | In the maintenance of file systems, de-fragmentation 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 |
| System Clean-Up | System Clean-Up is a computer maintenance utility included in Microsoft Windows designed to free up disk space on a computer's hard drive. The utility first searches and analyses the hard drive for files that are no longer of any use, and then removes the unnecessary files. |
| System Rstore | System Restore is a feature in Microsoft Windows that allows the user to revert their computer's state to that of a previous point in time, which can be used to recover from system malfunctions or other problems. |
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