At the ACME Widget Company, the Computers Have Started Behaving

question 135

Multiple Choice

At the ACME Widget Company, the computers have started behaving weirdly. Chris noticed that his directory had some files that he didn’t remember putting on his computer. Lesley noticed her computer was beginning to run very slowly, and Kim realized she was getting replies to emails she had not sent. The owner of the ACME Widget Company has contacted you to see if their company might have a computer security problem.
-Another possibility is that ACME Widget Company has a ____ that seems to perform one function while actually doing something else.

• A) virus
• B) worm
• C) Trojan horse
• D) bot

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