6-3.1 After visiting a large number of Web sites to complete your research for a lengthy research paper, your computer begins to act up. Your CPU is running much slower, your software frequently crashes, and you have difficulty connecting to the Internet. You have most likely become a victim of what type of malware?

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Jett Watts

17 December, 14:35

6-3.1 After visiting a large number of Web sites to complete your research for a lengthy research paper, your computer begins to act up. Your CPU is running much slower, your software frequently crashes, and you have difficulty connecting to the Internet. You have most likely become a victim of what type of malware?

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Lainey Lopez · Answer 1

Spyware.

Explanation:

Computer systems and networks are prone to cyber attacks. Attackers exploit weakness in systems and networks. For this reason, organizations documents and implement technical and security policies to mitigate these cyber attacks.

Attackers or hacker writes malicious software with the intension to infect computer systems to weaken the security policies, making these malwares are viruses and worms to be identified as threats to a system.

The spyware are malwares used to monitor and steal information in a system, it runs in the system background, making the system run slow and also consumes the bandwidth for internet connection.

Rene Lynch · Answer 2

Spyware

Explanation:

To be safe of spyware, be careful of websites you visit, as it can detect many things on your system/phone such as text messages you send and receive, your call history, and your location.

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