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Spamming has mushroomed because it costs only a few cents to send thousands of messages advertising wares to Internet users. Most spam originates from bot networks, which consist of thousands of captured PCs that can initiate and relay spam messages. Spammers tend to market products not widely approved in most civilized societies.

Which of the following best describes computer abuse?

Computer abuse is the scientific collection, examination, authentication, preservation, and analysis of data held on or retrieved from computer storage media in such a way that the information can be used as evidence in a court of law.

Computer abuse is the commission of acts involving a computer that may not be illegal but that are considered unethical.

Computer abuse refers to practices and technologies for designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers, and associated devices such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems to minimize impact on the environment.

Computer abuse refers to applying the resources of many computers in a network to a single problem.