Test: Security Aspects - 1 - CUET Humanities MCQ

A threat is any agent, condition, or circumstance that could potentially cause harm, loss, or damage.

'Computer virus' is a destructive program.

Computer virus is not a complete program.This is made intentionally to harm the system. Virus may be present in a system but it may be inactive. it becomes active when it has suitable condition. Computer virus is independent and harms the system. Computer worm is a complete program which cannot work independently. It just goes on consuming the resources. Thus, statement 1 is right but 3 is wrong.

Trojan horse fools a user to download and/or execute applications by pretending to be useful.

Adware is any software application in which advertising banners are displayed while a program is running.

UCE (unsolicited commercial e-mail) is a legal term used to describe an electronic promotional message sent to a consumer without the consumer's request or consent. In the vernacular, this kind of e-mail message is called spam.

Various anti-spam techniques are used to prevent e-mail spam. Anti-spam program is a program that uses a variety of different approaches to identify and eliminate spam. Anti-spam techniques can be broken into four broad categories: those that require actions by individuals, those that can be automated by e-mail administrators, those that can be automated by e-mail senders and those employed by researchers and law enforcement officials.
So, option 2 anti spam prograrm is the answer.

A firewall is a network security system that monitors and controls the incoming and outgoing network traffic based on predetermined security rules.
A firewall typically establishes a barrier between a trusted, secure internal network and another outside network, such as the Internet, that is assumed not to be secure or trusted.

Denial of service (DoS) is a type of cyber attack designed to disable, shut down or disrupt a network, website or service. Typically, a malware is used to interrupt or inhibit the normal flow of data into and out of a system to render the target useless or inaccessible for a certain period.

SQL injection attack gains malicious access to resources, applications or databases. DDoS attack does not exploit database. In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet.