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Video Card

See Graphics Card

Video Conferencing

Interaction between two or more locations via two-way video and audio transmission

Virus

Self-replicating malicious code that can modify other programs, usually to the determent of the computer system and its functions

Vista

The very latest edition of the Windows operating system; so far up take has been slow due to it not offering a much greater range of facilities than is currently offered by the tried and tested XP system

VPN (Virtual Private Network)

A secure communications ‘tunnel’ made through an active internet connection allowing secure, remote access to an organisations internal network

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