The only time i believe i have had to deal with the effects of these attacks was by a worm. From my understanding of the definition of a worm it is a malicious program that replicates itself constantly without requiring another to provide a safe environment for replication. These worms can replicate themselves until they completely fill available resources.
In my experience i am not 100% sure that the attack was a worm, but the internet browser screen continually kept opening to the page which i had visited. I can not remember what page this was but i know it was my internet explorer browser. This continued for a few minutes and then i turned my computer off at the power. When i started it back up again it rebooted andeverything worked as normal. This attack if it was an attack may not have been a worm but that's the only category which i think it fits into.
Afterwards i took no precautionary measures to stop future worms or attacks and have had no trouble since this one off experience.
As i do not use the internet that regularly unless required, i may not be as prone to these attacks. It is only recently since doing eBusiness courses that i have expanded my online use, so in the future i may need to protect my self from any of these events occuring to me. Maybe through completing this course i may learn ways to do this and learn more about information security in general.
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