5.1 I can describe the threats to system performance when working online.
Describe what contention is and how it slows down your online experience?
Contention means competition for resources. The term is used especially in networks to describe the situation where two or more nodes attempt to transmit a message across the same wire at the same time. (Definition from http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/contention.html) It slows down the online experience becuase if two nodes or more, for example if the nodes were computers and two people were on the same website or in gaming when people are in the same session the servers tend to run slow due to the usage.
Why would a virus checker slow down your online experience?
It would slow down the online experience because the virus checker would continously be running on the device and is always checking through your files also the processor would be running through every file to ensure that the files are safe from viruses. The process is running hard and is constant.
How does malware slow down your system?
Malware is when a software which is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain authorized access to a computer system this would slow down your system because it would constantly have pop ups coming up, files crashing this all will slow down your system because it would take up your storage or it may lack on storage capacity.
Contention means competition for resources. The term is used especially in networks to describe the situation where two or more nodes attempt to transmit a message across the same wire at the same time. (Definition from http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/contention.html) It slows down the online experience becuase if two nodes or more, for example if the nodes were computers and two people were on the same website or in gaming when people are in the same session the servers tend to run slow due to the usage.
Why would a virus checker slow down your online experience?
It would slow down the online experience because the virus checker would continously be running on the device and is always checking through your files also the processor would be running through every file to ensure that the files are safe from viruses. The process is running hard and is constant.
How does malware slow down your system?
Malware is when a software which is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain authorized access to a computer system this would slow down your system because it would constantly have pop ups coming up, files crashing this all will slow down your system because it would take up your storage or it may lack on storage capacity.