CP102 Chapter Notes -National White Collar Crime Center, Internet Crime Complaint Center, Master Boot Record
Document Summary
Ch9 securing your system: protecting your digital data and devices. Any criminal action perpetrated primarily through the use of a computer. Internet crime complaint center (c3) is a partnership between the fbi and national white collar crime center (nw3c: top 4 complaint categories: non-delivery of payments/merchandise, identity theft, auction fraud, credit card fraud. Includes viruses, but theft of computer equipment isn"t included. Main purpose of virus: replicate itself and cope its code into as many other host files as possible. Majority of viruses have side effects, ranging from displaying annoying messages on screen to destroying files or contents of entire hard drives. Boot-sector virus: replicates itself into a hard drive"s master boot record, often transmitted by a flash drive left in a usb port. Master boot record: program that executes whenever a computer boots up, ensuring that the virus will be loaded into memory immediately, even before some virus protection program can load.
