While visiting a web site during your lunch break, you see a window that states the web site will not operate properly without f
irst installing an ‘activex’ control. you click ‘ok’ and continue your visit. later on, your computer begins acting erratically. in fact, you believe it is erasing files while you're working. what potential threat may you have encountered?
I believe the potential threat that you may have encountered is the intrusion of a computer virus. A computer virus is a type of malicious software program ("malware") that, when executed,replicates<span> by reproducing itself (copying its own source code) or </span>infecting<span> other computer programs by modifying them. </span>
