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Blacklist

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The list of email addresses from which you do not want to receive messages because you believe they will be spam or unsolicited email.

Variant, variants

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A modified version of an existing virus. A variant is usually deliberately produced by the virus author or another person amending the virus code. If changes to the original are small, most ...

New technology file system (NTFS)

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New technology file system is the default formatting system for disc drives used by Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows 2003. Microsoft has updated the NTFS specification to handle ...

Pretty good privacy (PGP)

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A strong-type programme that for encrypting data files and/or email messages on computers. PGP includes authentication to verify the sender of a message and non-repudiation to prevent the sender ...

Risk assessment

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This evaluation calculates the likelihood and impact of a successful attack on an organization's data and assets. McAfee Labs estimates risk for vulnerabilities and threats based on the expected ...

.dldr

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Part of the McAfee convention for naming viruses and Trojans. This suffix at the end of a detection name indicates the sample is the downloader component of the named sample.

Parasitic infector

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A virus that modifies existing files on a disk, injecting its code into the file where it resides. When the user runs the infected file, the virus runs, too.