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Factopedia
Melissa was a Norton McAfee Quick Heal
powerful macro
virus that forced FIREWALL
Microsoft and other
big companies to shut The term ‘firewall’ originally referred to a wall intended to confine
down their mailing
system in 1999. a fire or potential fire within a building. In computer, a firewall
is a software or hardware-based network security system that
controls the incoming and outgoing network traffic based on
applied rule set. A firewall acts like a gatekeeper and prevents
unauthorised access to a computer network.
Reaper was the
first-ever Antivirus,
programmed in 1972. Let’s BaCk-uP
A computer virus is a ‘piece of code’ or program developed
to corrupt the data or program files stored on the computer
system.
A malware is a type of malicious program designed to
damage or carryout other unwanted actions on a computer
Elk Cloner is one system.
of the earliest The different types of malware are worms, trojan horses,
microcomputer spyware, ransomware and rootkit.
viruses, developed in
1982 by Rich Skrenta A set of programs that identifies and remove malware is
when he was a known as antivirus software.
15-year-old. He used it A firewall is a software or hardware-based network security
to prank his friends by system that controls the incoming and outgoing network
putting it on a game traffic based on applied rule set.
disk.
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