A public announcement is made about a newly discovered, rapidly spreading virus. The security team immediately updates and applies all its antivirus signatures. The security manager contacts the antivirus vendor support team to ask why one of the systems was infected. The vendor support team explains that a signature update is not available for this virus yet. Which of the following BEST describes this situation?

A. Zero Day virusB. Lack of vendor supportC. Untrained usersD. Firewall configuration issues

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Libby Cohen

Computers & Technology

6 January, 19:50

A public announcement is made about a newly discovered, rapidly spreading virus. The security team immediately updates and applies all its antivirus signatures. The security manager contacts the antivirus vendor support team to ask why one of the systems was infected. The vendor support team explains that a signature update is not available for this virus yet. Which of the following BEST describes this situation?

A. Zero Day virusB. Lack of vendor supportC. Untrained usersD. Firewall configuration issues

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Savage · Answer 1

A. Zero Day virus

Explanation:

Based on the information provided within the question it can be said that the term that best describes this situation would be a Zero Day Virus. This term refers to a previously unknown or never before seen computer virus that is able to penetrate a systems defenses because the antivirus software signature has not yet been created to protect the systems from such a threat.