10.1 What are three broad mechanisms that malware can use to propagate?10.2 What are four broad categories of payloads that malware may carry?10.3 What are typical phases of operation of a virus or worm?10.4 What mechanisms can a virus use to conceal itself?10.5 What is the difference between machine-executable and macro viruses?10.6 What means can a worm use to access remote systems to propagate?10.7 What is a “drive-by-download” and how does it differ from a worm?10.8 What is a “logic bomb”?10.9 Differentiate among the following: a backdoor, a bot, a keylogger, spyware, and a rootkit? Can they all be present in the same malware?10.10 List some of the different levels in a system that a rootkit may use.10.11 Describe some malware countermeasure elements.10.12 List three places malware mitigation mechanisms may be located.10.13 Briefly describe the four generations of antivirus software.10.14 How does behavior-blocking software work?10.15 What is a distributed denial-of-service system?
Indirect Assessment Methods Supporting Lecture: Review the following lecture: Indirect
June 16, 2021
Indirect Assessment Methods Supporting Lecture: Review the following lecture: Indirect Measures Before beginning work on this discussion forum, please review the link Doing Discussion Questions
