A | B |
junk e-mail | spam |
the person who sends spam e-mails | spammers |
mean of harassing behavior online | cyber bullying |
anyone who uses cyber space | cyber citizen |
real people communicating through computers connected to the Internet | cyberspace |
sequence of characters on your keyboard to show emotion | emoticons |
putting someone down in cyberspace using rude words | flame war |
passing along an email you received | forwarding |
stories, urban legends, or rumors | hoaxes |
information that is not given directly | indirect information |
worldwide network of smaller networks | internet |
worms or viruses written to harm your computer | maleware |
people online who bother you and make you feel uncomfortable | online bullies |
series of letters, numbers or symbols used to log onto a computer sustem, usually 6-8 characters long | password |
someone who victimizes somebody else, using lies, secrecy or stealth | predator |
a victim of a predator | prey |
a program running in the background of your computer monitoring your activities, can cause pop-ups | spyware |
a program written claiming to be one thing but actually will do another when downloaded | trojan horse |
computer instruction that can cause damage to your computer by spreading infected files | virus |
travel through shared files and programs on a network | worms |