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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An IM worm is self-replicating malicious code that spreads in instant messaging networks. When an IM worm infects a computer, it locates the address book for the instant messenger client, which is ...

Hybrid virus

Software; Malware

A hybrid virus (sometimes called a multi-part or multipartite virus) is one that combines characteristics of more than one type to infect both programme files and system sectors. The virus may attack ...

Klez

Software; Malware

Klez (pronounced KLEHZ) is an Internet worm that launches automatically when a user previews or reads an e-mail message containing Klez on a system that has not been patched for a vulnerability in ...

Kriz virus

Software; Malware

Discovered in the fall of 1999, the Kriz virus (known more formally as W32.Kriz, W32.Kriz.dr, or PE_KRIZ) infects files on Windows 9x and Windows NT and 2000 systems. It has a potentially devastating ...

Logic bomb

Software; Malware

In a computer program, a logic bomb, also called slag code, is programming code, inserted surreptitiously or intentionally, that is designed to execute (or "explode") under circumstances such as the ...

In the wild

Software; Malware

According to noted computer virus expert Paul Ducklin, in order for a virus to be considered in the wild, "it must be spreading as a result of normal day-to-day operations on and between the ...

Nimda

Software; Malware

First appearing on September 18, 2001, Nimda is a computer virus that caused traffic slowdowns as it rippled across the Internet, spreading through four different methods, infecting computers ...