After a User Reports Stow Computer Performance, a Systems Administrator

question 627

Multiple Choice

After a user reports stow computer performance, a systems administrator detects a suspicious file, which was installed as part of a freeware software package. The systems administrator reviews the output below: Based on the above information, which of the following types of malware was installed on the user's computer?

• A) RAT
• B) Keylogger
• C) Spyware
• D) Worm
• E) Bot

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Definitions:

Knowledge

Information, understanding, or skill that one gets from experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.

Jürgen Habermas

A German sociologist and philosopher known for his theory on the public sphere, discourse ethics, and the concept of communicative rationality.

Rationality

Primarily, the ability to think and to act according to goals, plans, and strategies. Rationality is also thinking well and effectively and having good, well-conceived goals, plans, and strategies. In the first instance, rationality is to be contrasted with nonrationality; in the second instance, it is contrasted with irrationality. Worms are nonrational; fools and fanatics are irrational.

Powerful

Pertaining to having great power, influence, or effect.