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| Identity Theft: |
A crime of stealing one's personal and/or financial information, such as there name,
Social Security Number, or possibly account numbers with the intention to commit
fraud. |
| Illegal Operation: |
A commonly seen term in error messages, is a command to the OS or an possibly instruction
to the CPU that specifies an operation which is unknown and therefore can't be performed. |
| I/O: |
Describes a program, operation, or device which transfers data to or from a computer
or a peripheral device. Some devices like a keyboard or mouse are input-only
devices and others like printers are output-only. |
| iFrame: |
A floating frame inserted within a Web page which makes it possible to embed another
HTML document inside the main document.
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| IGMP: |
Also known as Internet Group Management Protocol, is a protocol which hosts use
to keep local routers up to date with their membership in multicast groups. When
all hosts leave a group, the router will no longer forward datagrams that arrive
for that group.
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| Internet Information Server: |
Also known as IIS, is Microsoft's Web server which runs on Windows Server platforms.
With IIS, MS includes a set of programs for building and administering Web sites,
a search engine, and also support for writing Web-based applications. |
| Internet Connection Sharing: |
Or ICS, is a feature of the Windows operating system which allows sharing of a single
Internet connection on one computer between other computers on the same local area
network. It uses DHCP and Network address translation. |
| IP Address: |
Also known as an Internet Protocol Address. All computers on the Internet are assigned
a unique identifier called an IP address. These addresses are used like street addresses
so other computers on the Internet will be able to find them. An example of an IP
address would look something like this - 72.14.207.99. To find your computers IP
address go to Start-->Run and then type CMD, then click enter. In the Command
prompt window, type IPCONFIG/ALL, then click Enter and you will see your IP address.
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