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Ahh, good old Google! A search engine is the librarian of the Internet. You tell her what you're looking for and she goes off and comes back with a pile of books for you to look through! Of course there's more than one librarian - Yahoo, Ask, AltaVista.....but Google's the best!

Search Engine

A bit like doing exercise because you think it's good for you but in the process tearing a muscle! A Trojan horse is something you think is good for your computerbut actually does damage.

Trojan horse

When you go to a gym you have a locker to keep your personal stuff in and use a key to get into it. On the internet you have an account to keep your personal stuff in and have a username and password to get into it!

Username

Designed with the intention of replicating itself and infect as many computers as possible causing harm and damage - like flu does to humans!

Virus

An email system which can be accessed via the Internet on any computer anywhere - so if you're on holiday in the sun and want to send an email to all your friends and family saying 'wish you were here' you can!

Webmail

The 'lower class' of all viruses which spreads without you doing anything and consumes memory or bandwidth which can eventually cause your computer to stop responding!

Worm

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