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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Who are the "bad guys" anyway?

Worms? Trojans horses? Viruses? Key Loggers? Huh?

I call them, collectively, "Bad Guys," but then, that's just the term I started using when teaching a group of elderly nuns how to stay safer on the internet.

Here's a succinct description of all sorts of "bad guys" that seem to be lurking everywhere, waiting for us to do something so they can invade!

http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/malware-definitions.htm
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