Tuesday, December 14, 2010

vocab words

Spam: Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.

Text Messaging: Text messaging or texting refers to the exchange of brief written messages between fixed-line phone or mobile phone and fixed or portable devices over a network.

User Agent: In computing, a user agent is a client application implementing a network protocol used in communications within a client–server distributed computing system.

Windows Mail: Windows Mail is an e-mail and newsgroup client included in Windows Vista, that was superseded by Windows Live Mail.

Filtering: Collaborative filtering (CF) is the process of filtering for information or patterns using techniques involving collaboration among multiple agents, viewpoints, data sources

Fraud: a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent.

Hoax: a deliberately fabricated falsehood made to masquerade as truth.

Logic Bomb: is a piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met.

Netiquette: is a set of social conventions that facilitate interaction over networks

Phishing: In the field of computer security, phishing is the criminally fraudulent process of attempting to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card

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