Question

While visiting a web site during your lunch break, you see a window that states the web site will not operate properly without first installing an ‘activex’ control. you click ‘ok’ and continue your visit. later on, your computer begins acting erratically. in fact, you believe it is erasing files while you're working. what potential threat may you have encountered?

Answer 1

I believe the potential threat that you may have encountered is the intrusion of a computer virus. A computer virus is a type of malicious software program ("malware") that, when executed,replicates by reproducing itself (copying its own source code) or infecting other computer programs by modifying them.