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Malware

By Mary Landesman, About.com

Definition:

Malware is an abbreviation for malicious software and refers collectively to viruses, worms, trojans, adware, and spyware. Malicious software, or malware, is code that does something unexpected and undesirable to a computer system.

Also Known As: malicious software
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