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Question:
A sales manager at your company is reporting about slow performance on his computer. When you thoroughly investigate the issue, you find spyware on his computer. He insists that the only thing he has downloaded recently was a freeware stock trading application. Which of the following is the BEST explanation for this situation?
A
Trojan horse.
explanation
A Trojan horse attaches a malicious program to a legitimate program. When the user downloads and installs the legitimate program, they get the malware. A logic bomb is a malware that does its misdeeds when some condition is met. A rootkit is a malware that gets administrative, or root, access. A macro virus is a virus that is embedded in a document as a macro.
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