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MALEVOLENT PROGRAM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A computer program designed to have undesirable or harmful effects
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("malevolent program" is a kind of...):
computer program; computer programme; program; programme ((computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "malevolent program"):
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; when exploded it may delete or corrupt data, or print a spurious message, or have other harmful effects)
trojan; trojan horse (a program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful)
computer virus; 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)
