1)what do you mean by signature in respect of computer virus?
2)name the cyber act in India
3)what is the danger of a trojan horse?
4)explain the usage of digital signature
Answers
1). A virus signature is a string of characters or numbers that makes up the signature that anti-virus programs are designed to detect. One signature may contain several virus signatures, which are algorithms or hashes that uniquely identify a specific virus. A large number of viruses may share a single signature, allowing a virus scanner to detect viruses it has never seen before
2). Information Technology Act, 2000 (“IT Act”) which came into force on October 17, 2000
3). A Trojan horse (or Trojan) is one of the most common and dangerous types of threats that can infect your computer or mobile device. Trojans are usually disguised as benign or useful software that you download from the Internet, but they actually carry malicious code designed to do harm
4). A digital certificate, an electronic document that contains the digital signature of the issuing certificate authority, binds together a public key with an identity and can be used to verify that a public key belongs to a particular person or entity.