Steve who worked as an HR executive for Media Glitz, a fashion magazine, was terminated for poor job performance. Unhappy with this fact, Steve created a malicious program and installed it in the HR manager's computer which he had access to. This program was intended to delete the employee details database, every year on the 30th of March.

Steve has infected the HR manager's system with a(n) __________.

Respuesta :

Answer:

time bomb

Explanation:

Time bomb -

It is a computer program , which is coded in a way that it will start and stop as soon as its task is completed , is known as a time bomb .

As soon as a time bomb is activated with performs its function assigned to it , an after the task is done , it gets deactivated , and again the activation and deactivation period goes on .

Hence , Steve got his HR manager's system affected by the time bomb , which can hamper with the database .

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