Given below are two statements. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.
Statement I:A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is a large number of requests sent at the same time to a web server, causing the server to crash.
Statement II:A virus is a self-replicating malicious software that causes a computer to run slowly.
ABoth Statement I and Statement II are correct ✓ Correct
BBoth Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
CStatement I is correct but Statement II is incorrect
DStatement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Correct answer: (A) Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
Explanation
Both statements are correct about these cyber threats.
Statement 1 rightly describes a DoS attack as flooding a server with simultaneous requests until it crashes.
Statement 2 rightly describes a virus as self-replicating malware that slows a computer.
A DoS attack denies legitimate users access by overloading the server.
A virus attaches to files and spreads when they run.
A distributed DoS attack (DDoS) launches from many machines at once.
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