1. Analyzing Technology Issues
Computer Basics
Analyzing Technology Issues

2. Computer Crimes
A criminal act committed through the use of a computer.
It can also involve the theft of a computer and any equipment associated with the computer.

3. Types of Computer Crimes
Computer fraud
Conduct that involves the manipulation of a computer or computer data in order to obtain money, property, or value dishonestly or to cause loss.
Computer hacking
Involves invading someone else’s computer, usually for personal gain or just the satisfaction of invasion.

4. Other Computer Crimes Theft of computer time Data diddling
An employee uses a company’s computer for personal use such as running a small business, keeping records of an outside organization, or keeping personal records.
Data diddling
Changing data before it is entered into the computer or after is has been entered into the computer.

5. Computer Viruses
A virus is a program that has been written to cause corruption of data on a computer.

6. Types of Computer Viruses
Worm
Makes many copies of itself, resulting in the consumption of system resources that slows down or actually halts tasks.
Time bomb
Virus that does not cause its damage until a certain date or until the system has been booted a certain number of times.
Logic bomb
Virus triggered by the appearance or disappearance of specified data.
Trojan horse
Virus that does something different from what it is expected to do.

7. Privacy and Security Issues
When you submit information on the Internet, it is possible for the information to be gathered by many persons
used for various situations including being sold
Information can be gathered from online sources such as schools, banks, hospitals, insurance companies, and many other sources.

8. Security Measures Maintain and Enforce Security Measures such as:
Passwords
Electronic identification cards
Firewalls
Antivirus software
Selective hiring process

9. Advantages and Uses of Telecommunications
Telecommunication involves electronically transferring data.
Distance learning
Allows the user to take classes without being physically present.
Teleconferencing
Provides conferencing capabilities from several locations without leaving the office, reduces costs for time and travel.

10. What is a browser?
The software program that you use to retrieve documents from the World Wide Web (WWW) and to display them in a readable format.
Examples:
Internet Explorer
Netscape Communicator

11. Title bar
The bar on top of the window that contains the name of the document.

12. Menu Bar A horizontal menu that appears on top of a window.
Provides a selection of options related to the Web page.

13. Tool bar
Icons for single-click access to most commonly used menu commands.

14. Address bar
Contains the URL, or address, of the active Web page; also where you type the location for the Web page you want to visit.

15. Go button
Connects you to address displayed in the Address bar. Document Window displays the active Web Page

16. Status bar
Located at the bottom of the browser; shows the progress of Web page transactions.

17. Access Indicator
A small picture in the upper right corner of the browser; when animated, it means your browser is accessing data from a remote computer.

18. Scroll bars
Vertical and horizontal scroll bars; lets you scroll vertically and horizontally if the Web page is too long or too wide to fit within one screen.

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Title Bar

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Menu Bar

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Tool Bar

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Address Bar

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Go Button

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Status Bar

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Access Indicator

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Scroll Bar

27. What is ?
, or electronic mail, is similar to regular mail. You have a message, an address, and a carrier that figures out how to get it from one location to another.
is used to stay in touch with family and friends, conduct business, and send attachments such as text and image files.

28. Advantages and Uses of Email
Faster way to communicate and respond
Quick and easy way to send messages
Forward messages to other individuals
Send messages to multiple individuals
Include attachments such as pictures, audio files, and documents

29. Electronic Mail Addresses
The address consists of three parts:
The user name of the individual
symbol
The user’s domain name
Example:
User Name
Domain Name

30. What is a search engine?
A tool that lets you find Web pages that match a particular word or phrase.
Examples of search engines:
Yahoo!
Google
HotBot
InfoSeek
Excite

31. Background of the Internet
Early origin in 1960s
Closely tied to a networking project started by a governmental division called the Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Original name: ARPANET
Created so that scientists were able to share information on military and scientific research.

32. Features of the Internet
The World Wide Web
Began in March 1989 when Tim Berners-Lee wrote a small computer program for his personal use.

33. Web Protocols HTML HTTP Hypertext Markup Language
A series of tags that are integrated into text documents and describes how the text should be formatted when a Web browser displays it on the screen.
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Standard that defines how messages are formatted and transmitted.

34. Chat Rooms
Using the computer to create real-time communication between yourself and another user or a group of users.
Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
A text-based chat developed by Jarkko Oikarinen in 1988.
One of the most widely used chat forums on the Internet today.

35. Chat Options Web chat Proprietary chat Buddy lists
Incorporates graphics, audio and video
Hosted by search engines such as Yahoo, Snap, and Excite.
Proprietary chat
Requires that you download and install software from a company.
Examples are Microsoft Chat, AOL, and Prodigy.
Buddy lists
You specify your list of friends and even tell when they are online.
Examples are ICQ and AOL Messenger

36. Mailing Lists A group of people with a shared interest.
Their addresses are collected into a group, and this group is identified by a single name.
When a message is sent to the group, everyone on the list receives that message.

37. Types of Search Engines
Keyword Search
Uses keywords to perform search
Multimedia Search Engines
Used to find graphics, video clips, animation, and MP3 music files.
Meta Search Engines
Search several major search engines at one time.
Subject Directories
Organized by subject categories and displayed in a series of menus.

38. Phrase Searching
A phrase is entered using double quotation marks and only matches those that appear adjacent to each other and in the order in which you specify.
Example: “baseball cards”

39. Search Engine Math
Symbols used in formulas to filter out unwanted listings.
Use the plus symbol (+) before words that must appear.
Also known as an inclusion operator.
Use the minus symbol (-) before words that you do not want to appear.
Also known as an exclusion operator.

40. Boolean Operators Boolean logic consists of three logical operators:
AND
NOT OR

41. Wildcard Searching
The * symbol, called an asterisk, is considered a wildcard character.
Used if you don’t know the spelling of a word
Example: T*Woods to search for Tiger Woods
Used to search plurals or variations of words.

42. Title Searching Searching the title of a web page.
When a web page author creates a Web page, the Web page generally contains a HTML title.