2. phishing
• Phishing is someone trying to get credit card
details and passwords off other peoples
computer , people also use instant messaging
or email when the email is opened it takes
users to a site that, has malware on it or the
site may ask you for bank details or private
information. To stop these attacks you can use
anti-virus or spam filters or just don’t open
emails from, an unknown user on the links
inside the email from the unknown user.
3. Malware
• Malware is short for malicious software
malware can be something , that can be
installed onto the computer without the user
knowing its stops the computer from
functioning properly, malware carries virus
and worms, sometimes malware can disguise
it self as normal software. The ways to stop it
are to use anti-malware and firewalls.
4. viruses
• Viruses are malware program when inside the
computer it starts to duplicate, so when the
virus is deleted ten more are made it self and
it also hides it self from ,anti-virus and it takes
up hard drive space and CPU storage and slow
down the computer as a whole. The best way
to fix this anti-virus and firewalls.
5. spam
• Spam is a pointless email that may come
though to you it does not do, anything it just
takes up space on a networks bandwidth on
the internet spam, can also can be found on
online chat rooms sometimes. The best way to
stop spam is to ignore it or get spam filters
which deletes spam if detected.
