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  2. List of computing and IT abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    HCI—Human—Computer Interaction; HD—High Density; HDD—Hard Disk Drive; HCL—Hardware Compatibility List; HD DVD—High Definition DVD; HDL—Hardware Description Language; HDMI—High-Definition Multimedia Interface; HECI—Host Embedded Controller Interface; HF—High Frequency; HFS—Hierarchical File System; HHD—Hybrid Hard Drive

  3. Computer virus - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 December 2024. Computer program that modifies other programs to replicate itself and spread Hex dump of the Brain virus, generally regarded as the first computer virus for the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and compatibles A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by ...

  4. List of information technology initialisms - Wikipedia

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    Abbreviation Meaning Primary Applicability [4] Normative Reference ACK: Acknowledgement Transport and other layers TCP/IP, for example. RFC 793 ACL: Access control list Security, application layer Access control list, Cisco overview: ADSL: Asymmetric digital subscriber line Telecom ITU-T G.992.5 Annex M, for example AES: Advanced Encryption ...

  5. Glossary of computer hardware terms - Wikipedia

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    See also References External links A Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) A dedicated video bus standard introduced by INTEL enabling 3D graphics capabilities; commonly present on an AGP slot on the motherboard. (Presently a historical expansion card standard, designed for attaching a video card to a computer's motherboard (and considered high-speed at launch, one of the last off-chip parallel ...

  6. List of computer term etymologies - Wikipedia

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    A mid-1970s science fiction novel by David Gerrold, When H.A.R.L.I.E. was One, includes a description of a fictional computer program named VIRUS that worked just like a virus (and was countered by a program named ANTIBODY). The term "computer virus" also appears in the comic book "Uncanny X-Men" No. 158, published in 1982. A computer virus's ...

  7. Indicator of compromise - Wikipedia

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    Typical IoCs are virus signatures and IP addresses, MD5 hashes of malware files, or URLs or domain names of botnet command and control servers. After IoCs have been identified via a process of incident response and computer forensics, they can be used for early detection of future attack attempts using intrusion detection systems and antivirus software.

  8. List of computer technology code names - Wikipedia

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    Penryn — Intel Core 2 "Core architecture" 45 nm die shrink with SSE4; Pensacola — Red Hat Linux AS 2.1 / RHEL 2.1 AS; Perestroika — Apple A/UX 2.0; Perigree — Sun SPARCstation 4; Persistence — TinySofa Enterprise Linux 2.0-pre3; Peter Pan — Apple Macintosh TV; Phantasmal — Source Mage GNU/Linux 0.6; Pharaoh — StartCom Linux 3.0.0-DL

  9. Cryptovirology - Wikipedia

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    An example of a virus that informs the owner of the infected machine to pay a ransom is the virus nicknamed Tro_Ransom.A. [9] This virus asks the owner of the infected machine to send $10.99 to a given account through Western Union. Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ag is a classic cryptovirus. [10]