Spam Glossary

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A
	AdvWare	AIM [AOL Instant Messenger]	Archive file
	Adware	API [Application Program Interface]	ASCII [American Standard Code for Information Interchange]
B
	Bandwidth	Black hole list	Broadband
	Batch file	Blacklist	Browser Helper Object
	Binary code	Blended threat	Browser Hijacker
	BIOS	Bluetooth	Bug
	Bit	Bridge	Byte
C
	Cache	Command line	Compressed file
	CARO [Computer Anti-Virus Research Organization]	Command Line Prompt	Cookie
	CLI [Command Line Interface]	Command Prompt
D
	DHA [Directory Harvest Attack]	DNS poisoning	Download
	Dial-up connection	DNS [Domain Name System] server	DSL
	Disk sector	Domain name
	DNS cache poisoning, Pharming	DOS prompt
E
	E-mail	EICAR [European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research]	Executable file
F
	FAT [File Allocation Table]	Format	FTP [File Transfer Protocol]
G
	Gateway	Gigabyte
H
	Hardware	Hot spot	HTML [Hypertext Markup Language]
	Hexadecimal	Hotel	HTTP [Hypertext Transfer Protocol]
I
	ICQ	IMAP [Internet Message Access Protocol]	IP address
	IM [Instant Messaging]	Internet	ISP [Internet Service Provider]
J
	JavaScript	Junk e-mail
K
	Kernel	Kilobyte
M
	Maintenance pack	Megabyte	MS-DOS
	Mass-mailer	Memory	MSN Messenger
	MBR [Master Boot Record]	Modem
N
	Network	NTFS [New Technology File System]
O
	Object code	Open source software
	Open relay	Operating system
P
	Packed file	Patch	POP3 [Post Office Protocol 3]
	Packet	PDA [Personal Digital Assistant]	Program
	Partition	Phishing	Proxy server
	Partition sector	Polymorphism
R
	RAM [Random Access memory]	Realtime black list
	RBL [Realtime Blocklist]	Router
S
	Sandbox	Shell	Software
	SDK [Software Development Kit]	Smartphone	Source code
	Sector	SMTP [Simple Mail Transfer Protocol]	Spam
	Service pack	Social engineering	System files
T
	TCP/IP [Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol]	Trojan
	Terabyte	Trojan horse
U
	UCE [Unsolicited Commercial E-mail]	Unix	USB [Universal Serial Bus]
	UDP [User Datagram Protocol]	Upload
	Unicode	URL [Universal Resource Locator]
V
	VBS [Visual Basic Script]	VoIP [Voice over IP]	VPN [Virtual Private Network]
W
	War chalking	Whitelist	Wireless network
	War driving	WiFi	World Wide Web
	Web browser	Wireless access point
X
	xx-bit processor