CS 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Natural Disaster, Malware, Computer Virus
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Protection of information and property from theft, corruption, or natural disaster. Allowing the information and property to remain accessible and productive to its intended users. The desire of personal privacy concerning the storing, repurposing, providing to third-parties. The more activities your computer is doing to check things. Sometimes you just can"t do what you are entitled to do, Security servers are often different than content servers. Software is considered malware based on the intent of the programmer. A computer virus attaches itself to a program or file. Enables it to spread from one computer to another, leaving infections as it travels. Viruses can increase their chances of spreading to other computers by infecting files on a network file system or a file system that is accessed by another computer. Similar to a virus by design and is considered to be a sub-class of a virus.
