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2.  Short answer type questions.

                     a.  What is a Computer Virus?
                     b.  What is a rootkit?

                 3.  Long answer type questions.

                      a.  Write any three harms caused by a computer virus.
 Prime (Ver. 2.2)-VII  4.  Competency-based/Application-based questions.                          Century   #Critical Thinking  COMPUTER VIRUS
                     b.  Write any four common symptoms of an infected computer system.
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                     a.   Suhana's computer is behaving strangely, displaying unusual messages on the screen, and

                        loading programs slowly. Tell her what could be the possible cause of these issues.

                     b.   Swati has just started using email to connect with her distant friends. They
                        often  share  different  things  through  email.  However,  after  clicking  on  an

 86                     email from an unknown source, her computer crashed. Can you explain which                         87
                        type of virus might have caused this harm to her computer?


                    Activity Time

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                 Find five malware programs in the following grid:                                Century   #Critical Thinking
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                                A     I      I     B     A     C     K      D     O     O      R     I


                                T     L     K      A     R     O     K      L     W     U      B     T


                                O     I     E      T     O     N     T      R     O     J      A     N


                                A     R     O     O      T     K      I     T     R     N      B     H

                                I     M     T      C     T     T     E      K     M     N      I     E


                               W      S      P     Y    W      A     R      E     M     Y      T     R


                                E     L     O      A     I     L     M      I     A     R     W      S





                    Find Out


                 We have read about some of the antiviruses in this chapter. With             Century   #Information literacy
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                 the help of your teacher, try to find out if there are some other              Skills
                 programs that function just like an antivirus.
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