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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A programme that allows a user to package or bundle a file. This may be used by malware authors to obfuscate the structure of a malware file and thus avoid detection, as packing a single file using ...

Polymorphic

Software; Malware

A polymorphic virus is a virus that can mutate its structure to avoid detection by antivirus programs. It can mutate usually by changing a variable or variables in its code without changing its ...

NT loader (NTLDR)

Software; Malware

It is the boot loader for the Windows NT operating system. It is usually run from the primary hard disc drive, but can also be run from portable devices.

Persistent XSS

Software; Malware

A type of cross-site scripting in which the malicious script is stored in a server and is rendered when the application is called or the webpage in which it is hosted is browsed to.

Pipe

Software; Malware

A conceptual channel that facilitates the feeding of the input from one process into another.

Encryption

Software; Malware

Encryption is the method of transforming readable data into unreadable data for the purposes of secrecy. Once encrypted, such data cannot be interpreted (either by humans or machines) until it is ...

Drive-by download

Software; Malware

Refers to the unintentional download of certain programmes from the Internet. This may be because of a lack of user understanding (such as agreeing to EULAs without reading through them), or an ...