Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Assignment #9, Term-list Definitions

1. E-commerce: Short for electronic commerce, it is the business of buying and selling products online.

2.
E-mail: Messages that are transmitted between computers over a communications network. Short for electronic mail.

3.
Internet backbond: The major communications links that form the core of the internet.

4.
Mass-mailing worm: A worm that sends itself to every e-mail address in the address book of an infected computer.

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TCP/IP (Acronym for Transmission Control / Internet Protocol): Astandard set of communication rules used by every computer that connects to the Internet.