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A screenshot of the Happy99 virus in action. Happy99 (also termed Ska or I-Worm) [4] is a computer worm for Microsoft Windows.It first appeared in mid-January 1999, spreading through email and usenet.
Sentry Firewall starts from CD-ROM and immediately constructs a RAM disk in the computer's memory. Before the system fully boots, a script searches for removable media containing a file called "sentry.conf".
Medieval II: Total War is a strategy video game developed by the since-disbanded Australian branch of The Creative Assembly and published by Sega. [1] It was released for Microsoft Windows on 10 November 2006.
Rogue security software is a form of malicious software and internet fraud that misleads users into believing there is a virus on their computer and aims to convince them to pay for a fake malware removal tool that actually installs malware on their computer. [1]
An example of a scareware popup. Scareware is a form of malware which uses social engineering to cause shock, anxiety, or the perception of a threat in order to manipulate users into buying unwanted software [1] (or products).
In the EU in 2012, an "Orphan Works Directive" (Directive 2012/28/EU) was constituted and is transferred into the members' laws.While the terminology has ambiguities regarding software and especially video games, some scholars argue that abandonware software video games fall under the definition of audiovisual works mentioned there.
In computer science, ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability) is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity despite errors, power failures, and other mishaps.
"Vaporware", sometimes synonymous with "vaportalk" in the 1980s, [3] has no single definition. It is generally used to describe a hardware or software product that has been announced, but that the developer is unlikely to release any time soon, if ever.