Infection

The invasion of any living organisms by disease-causing micro-organisms, which proceed to establish themselves, multiply, and produce various clinical signs in their host.

infection

Medical; Allergies and allergens

The invasion of the body or a part of the body by germs that cause disease, such as bacteria, viruses, or fungi.

infective

Plants; Plant pathology

Referring to an organism able to attack a host and cause infection; referring to a vector carrying or containing a pathogen and able to transfer it to a host plant.

trojan proxy

Software; Malware

A trojan proxy is a type of trojan that installs a proxy server on a computer. A proxy server installed by a trojan can be configured so that all Internet requests made by the ...

typosquatting

Software; Malware

A form of cybersquatting where someone registers a domain name of a highly visited website, except with typographical errors (for example, microsooft.com). Also known as ...

unchecked buffer

Software; Malware

A condition in which the data written into a buffer is not validated; this may cause errors in the program when the data in the buffer is read.

uninitialized memory

Software; Malware

Memory space that contains uninitialized value, which may leave the memory space in an unexpected state with it is accessed or used.

uninitialized pointer

Software; Malware

A pointer that contains an uninitialized value, which might not point to a valid memory location and result in the application trying to read or write from this invalid location.