Question

Users report that the network access is slow. After questioning the employees, the network administrator learned that one employee downloaded a third-party scanning program for the printer. What type of malware might be introduced that causes slow performance of the network?

Answer 1

Keeping the fact in mind that network access has been found to be slow and after questioning the employees, the network administrator learns that an employee downloaded a third-party application which turns out to be a scanning program for the printer.

Explanation:

The employee must have been unaware of the fact that the application was accompanied by a worm or a computer worm.

A computer worm is a type of malware that has a property to replicate itself and after infecting a particular computer increases its range and gets in the other computers working on the same network which is the main reason for reduced processing speed.