Malware

Malware

Abbreviation for Malicious software, it is a software designed to harm or secretly access a computer system without the owner's informed consent.

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Malware

A scareware that uses SQL injection to force scripts into legitimate website URLs to redirect users to a page warning them that their PCs are infected with malware that can be removed by downloading ...

Flame

Software; Malware

Flame is a computer virus designed to spy on people, steal classified information and cause mass deletion of data. Code-named 'Flame' or 'Flamer', the malware is undetectable by standard anti-virus ...

Alert level

Software; Malware

An alert level is assigned to particular malware by an analyst when adding detection. It is based on a calculation that takes into account the malware's ability to spread and potential to cause ...

ActiveX control

Software; Malware

A software component of Microsoft Windows that can be used to create and distribute small applications through Internet Explorer. ActiveX controls can be developed and used by software to perform ...

Application programming interface (API)

Software; Malware

A set of routines that an application uses to interface to lower-level services. APIs allow standard access to low-level programming functions, separating high-level programmes from the need to ...

Alias

Software; Malware

An alternative detection for particular malware. Generally this refers to detections of the same malware by other antivirus vendors; however, it may also refer to an alternative Microsoft detection ...

Authentication bypass

Software; Malware

A vulnerability in which malicious people can bypass certain authentication mechanisms of the application, thereby possibly gaining access to the application without the proper credentials.