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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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botnet

Software; Malware

A set of computers controlled by a "command and control" computer to execute commands as directed. The "command and control" computer can issue commands directly (often through Internet Relay Chat, ...

browser helper object

Software; Malware

A Browser Helper Object or BHO is a DLL file that acts as a plugin for Internet Explorer. A BHO may have a visible presence in the browser, such as a toolbar. A corresponding CLSID is assigned to ...

browser modifier

Software; Malware

A program that makes browser modifications without adequate user consent.

brute force

Software; Malware

A type of attack in which the attacker attempts to gain access to a system by guessing a correct set of credentials; this is usually done in an automated fashion using an application or an algorithm.

buffer overflow

Software; Malware

An error in an application in which the data written into a buffer exceeds the current capacity of that buffer, thus overwriting adjacent memory. Because memory is overwritten, this may result in ...

completely automated public turing test to tell computers and humans apart (CAPTCHA)

Software; Malware

A CAPTCHA is a challenge meant to be easily solvable by humans, while remaining too hard to be economically solved by computers. An example of CAPTCHA seen widely on websites is a distorted image of ...

cavity infection

Software; Malware

A cavity-infecting virus is a virus that infects files by inserting its code into space that does not appear to be used within the targeted host file. In this way, it is able to infect files without ...

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