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What Type of Virus Is Used to Lock a User's

Question 17

Question 17

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What type of virus is used to lock a user's system,or cloud accounts until the system's owner complies by paying the attacker a monetary fee?


A) keylogger
B) rootkit
C) ransomware
D) macro

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