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Computer Definitions
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Social Networking Sites | Allows users to communicate with each other and share their lives in a virtual community. |
| Cookie tracker | Cookies let some websites remember information about you like your password and username. Cookies can make the website personalized just for you. |
| Hacker | A person who gains unauthorized access to a computer |
| Virus | Programs that can hurt your computer. A virus can create, move, or erase your files and cause your computer to not work properly. |
| Identity theft | A crime where someone wrongfully gets and uses another person’s name and/or personal data in order to benefit themselves |
| Plagiarism | Taking someone else’s ideas or work and claiming they are your own |
| Intellectual Property | Creations of the mind: inventions, trademarks, novels, poems, plays, film, music, artistic works. Allows the owners of the creations to benefit. Protects their works. |
| Copyright | the exclusive legal right, given to the creator of a work to print, publish, perform, film, or record literary, artistic, or musical material, and to authorize others to do the same |
| Fair use act | Allows limited use of a copyrighted work without payment. |
| Digital Millennium Copyright Act | Updates US copyright law to include digital media. |
| Internet Censorship | The control or blocking of what can be viewed or published on the internet |
| Netiquette | Good manners when using the internet. |
| Spam | Junk email. E-mail that you don’t want to get. |
| Spyware | Software that can spy on your computer. |
| Anti-Virus Software Filtering Software | Anti-virus programs are designed to detect and remove viruses from your computer. Filtering software restricts and controls the content a user can see. |
| Malware | Programs designed to do damage to computers. |
| Internet Search Engines | Used to locate websites when users enter search terms or phrases. |
| Internet Domains | A name used to identify a website. |