Citizen Printer

Computer True or False?

1. In order for anti-virus software to protect computers, it must be continually updated. 2. The term typeface and font are interchangeable in today's desktop publishing world. 3. The term sans means without. 4. The first printers attached to personal computers were impact printers. 5. A typeface is the shape of letters such as Times Roman or Arial.

Public Comments

1. 1. False, antivirus programs employ powerful heuristics capable of detecting new threats without updated definitions. New definitions simply speed up the scan. 2. True. 3. False. 4. False, the dot matrix printer was the first type. 5. Trick question. Times Roman does not have a typeface, while Arial (and many others) do.
2. 1 - True When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. for the virus creators they will try to create new viruses where as the virus checkers cannot identify. once it is created the virus checkers (devlopers of the software) needs to find a way to identify and delete or qurantine the virus. so you need to update the virus def. file regularly. 2 - True 3. - No idea about SANS (System Administration, Networking, and Security) - Sorry 4. - True The first printers are Typewriter-derived printers, Teletypewriter-derived printers, Daisy wheel printers which is slow and not used any more dot matrix printers are much faster than these impact printers. 5. - True - but i agree with williams answer regarding times new roman