| NOUN | communication | malevolent program | a computer program designed to have undesirable or harmful effects |
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| Meaning | A computer program designed to have undesirable or harmful effects. | |
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| Narrower | logic bomb, slag code | A set of instructions inserted into a program that are designed to execute (or 'explode') if a particular condition is satisfied |
| trojan, trojan horse | A program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful | |
| virus, computer virus | A software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer | |
| worm | A software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network | |
| Broader | program, programme, computer program, computer programme | (computer science) a sequence / sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute |
| Spanish | malware | |
| Catalan | malware | |
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