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Computer Tech Glossary


DDoS - Acronym for Distributed Denial of Service attack. An attack on a remote destination with a collection of PCs often under the control of a virus or trojan.

Decryption - The act of restoring encrypted data.

Defrag - The act of rearranging data on a hard drive to for a contigious sectors to improve speed and hard drive health.

Device Driver - A piece of software that helps a hardware component communicate with the Operating System.

Device Manager - An area in the Control Panel under the System icon that shows all of the hardware devices in the PC.

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) A DHCP server automatically provides IP addresses for devices when they connect to a network. Typicall, DHCP is handled by a router.

 

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