ITPEC FE Morning October 2018 Question 40
ITPEC FE Morning October 2018 — Question 40 of 80
Spyware — a program secretly installed on a user's PC to collect personal data.
Spyware is installed without the user's consent and silently gathers sensitive information such as personal data, browsing history, and credentials.
Correct answer: c) — A program installed against the user's intention that collects personal information and access history. This matches the definition of spyware exactly.
Why not the others:
- a) Describes a dictionary attack — a brute-force method that tries all words from a dictionary to guess a password.
- b) Describes input sanitization (or output encoding) — a defensive technique that strips or rewrites HTML, JavaScript, and SQL from user input to prevent XSS and SQL injection.
- d) Describes port scanning — sequentially probing TCP ports to find vulnerabilities for intrusion.
Key rule: Spyware = installed without consent + collects information silently. The word "against the user's intention" is the key indicator.
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