Assignment
• What are three broad mechanisms that malware can use to propagate?
• What are four broad categories of payloads that malware may carry?
• What are typical phases of operation of a virus or worm?
• What mechanisms can a virus use to conceal itself?
• What is the difference between machine-executable and macro viruses?
• What means can a worm use to access remote systems to propagate?
• What is a "drive-by-download" and how does it differ from a worm?
• What is a "logic bomb"?
• Differentiate among the following: a backdoor, a bot, a keylogger, spyware, and a rootkit? Can they all be present in the same malware?
• List some of the different levels in a system that a rootkit may use.
• Describe some malware countermeasure elements.
• List three places malware mitigation mechanisms may be located.
• Briefly describe the four generations of antivirus software.
• How does behavior-blocking software work?
• What is a distributed denial-of-service system?
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