Crash is a serious computer problem that causes a program to stop or for the whole computer to stop working.

Boot means to start up a computer. For example, “boot-up you computer” or “reboot” as in to restart.

Backup is duplicate copy of a file. You should backup your data files regularly so you have a spare copy if the original is accidentally damaged or lost.

More articles on backing-up can be found here.

The back slash the character or \ . On most computer keyboards the back slash key is located the bottom-left corner of the main section of the keyboard, although this is not always the case.

Malware is the merger of  the words malicious and software. It  is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner’s informed consent. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code. The term ‘computer virus’ is sometimes used as a catch-all phrase to include all types of malware, including true viruses.

Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or bots, that run autonomously and automatically. The term is often associated with malicious software but it can also refer to the network of computers using distributed computing software.

‘Enter’ key: The Enter key is found on the right-hand side of the keyboard. In most cases the key has the text written on it – either ‘Enter’ or ‘Return’ and then an arrow that starts on the right, goes downwards slightly and the veers off to the left. On some other machines there is no text, just the arrow.

More info on the Enter key can be found here.

DRM: DRM stands for ‘Digital Rights Management’ which is used for protecting files from being used by all users (everybody and anyone)  and limited its use to only selected users. DRM is often used on major music stores to make sure only the purchaser of the music is the one who uses it, and so that that they cannot redistributed it to anyone else for free.

Link: The Internet is made of many different Web pages. The computer software that people use to make these pages lets us go to other pages in a very fast and easy way, simply by clicking on either a picture or text link to get to another page.

Twitter: Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.