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Question 1. What are three broad mechanisms that malware can use to propagate?

Question 2. What are four broad categories of payloads that malware may carry?

Question 3. What are typical phases of operation of a virus or worm?

Question 4. What mechanisms can a virus use to conceal itself?

Question 5. What is the difference between machine-executable and macro viruses?

Question 6. What means can a worm use to access remote systems to propagate?

Question 7. What is a "drive-by-download" and how does it differ from a worm?

Question 8. What is a "logic bomb"?

Question 9. Differentiate among the following: a backdoor, a bot, a keylogger, spyware, and a rootkit? Can they all be present in the same malware?

Question 10. List some of the different levels in a system that a rootkit may use.

Question 11. Describe some malware countermeasure elements.

Question 12. List three places malware mitigation mechanisms may be located.

Question 13. Briefly describe the four generations of antivirus software.

Question 14. How does behavior-blocking software work?

Question 15. What is a distributed denial-of-service system?