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| Software installed on a computer that produces pop-up ads using your browser; the ads are often based on your browsing habits. |
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| Software used to remove spyware and adware. |
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| Utility programs that prevent infection or scan a system to detect and remove viruses. McAfee Associates’ VirusScan and Norton AntiVirus are two popular AV packages. |
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| Standards developed by the American National Standard Institute (ANSI) that dictate how to securely erase data from solid-state devices such as a USB flash drive or SSD drive in order to protect personal privacy. |
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| An input device that inputs biological data about a person; the data can identify a person’s fingerprints, handprints, face, voice, eye, and handwriting. |
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| A utility in Windows 7/Vista Ultimate and Enterprise editions that is used to lock down a hard drive by encrypting the entire Windows volume and any other volume on the drive. |
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| An infectious program that can replace the boot program with a modified, infected version, often causing boot and data retrieval problems. |
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| A machine that exposes a storage device to a strong magnetic field to completely erase the data on a magnetic hard drive or tape drive. |
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| A code used to authenticate the source of a file or document or to identify and authenticate a person or organization sending data over a network. The code is assigned by a certificate authority such as VeriSign and includes a public key for encryption. Also called digital ID or digital signature. |
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| An email message that is trying to tempt you to give out personal information or trying to scam you. |
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| Encrypted File System (EFS) |
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| A way to use a key to encode a file or folder on an NTFS volume to protect sensitive data. Because it is an integrated system service, EFS is transparent to users and applications. |
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| A program that AV software recognizes to be potentially harmful or potentially unwanted. |
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| A device, such as a type of smart card, that can fit conveniently on a key chain. |
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| A type of spyware that tracks your keystrokes, including passwords, chat room sessions, email messages, documents, online purchases, and anything else you type on your PC. Text is logged to a text file and transmitted over the Internet without your knowledge. |
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| A technology by Absolute Software used to track the whereabouts of a laptop computer and, if the computer is stolen, lock down access to the computer or erase data on it. |
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| Any unwanted program that is transmitted to a computer without the user’s knowledge and that is designed to do varying degrees of damage to data and software. Types of infestations include viruses, Trojan horses, worms, adware, spyware, keyloggers, browser hijackers, dialers, and downloaders. Also called malware, infestation, or computer infestation. |
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| (1) A type of identity theft where a person is baited into giving personal data to a web site that appears to be the web site of a reputable company with which the person has an account. (2) Sending an email message with the intent of getting the user to reveal private information that can be used for identify theft. |
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| A device that fits over a monitor screen to prevent other people from viewing the monitor from a wide angle. |
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| A computer that is suspected of infection and is not allowed to use the network, is put on a different network dedicated to quarantined computers, or is allowed to access only certain network resources. |
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| As part of the authentication process, some systems use biometric data by scanning the blood vessels on the back of the eye and is considered the most reliable of all biometric data scanning. |
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| A badge worn by an employee and is used to gain entrance into a locked area of a building. A Radio Frequency Identification token transmits authentication to the system when the token gets in range of a query device. |
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| A type of malicious software that loads itself before the OS boot is complete and can hijack internal Windows components so that it masks information Windows provides to user-mode utilities such as Windows Explorer or Task Manager. |
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| A type of smart card that contains authentication information. |
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| A center in Vista where you can confirm Windows Firewall, Windows Update, anti-malware settings, including that of Windows Defender, and other security settings. |
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| Where other people secretly peek at your monitor screen as you work to gain valuable information. |
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| Any small device that contains authentication information that can be keyed into a logon window or read by a reader to authenticate a user on a network. |
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| A device that can read a smart card used to authenticate a person onto a network. |
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| The practice of tricking people into giving out private information or allowing unsafe programs into the network or computer. |
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| Malicious software that installs itself on your computer to spy on you. It collects personal information about you that it transmits over the Internet to web-hosting sites that intend to use your personal data for harm. |
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| A password that is not easy to guess |
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| When someone who is unauthorized follows the employee through a secured entrance to a room or building. |
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| A type of malware that tricks you into opening it by substituting itself for a legitimate program. |
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| A program that often has an incubation period, is infectious, and is intended to cause damage. A virus program might destroy data and programs or damage a disk drive’s boot sector. |
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| A set of distinguishing characteristics of a virus used by antivirus software to identify new viruses as they get into the wild. Also called virus signatures. |
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| A database about viruses that is kept on the Internet. |
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| Antispyware utility included in Windows 7/Vista. |
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| A personal firewall that protects a computer from intrusion and is automatically configured when you set your network location in the Network and Sharing Center. |
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| An infestation designed to copy itself repeatedly to memory, on drive space, or on a network, until little memory, disk space, or network bandwidth remains. |
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