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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clean

Software; Malware

To remove malware or potentially unwanted software from an infected computer. A single cleaning can involve multiple disinfections.

clean file

Software; Malware

A file that has been determined to be neither malicious, nor potentially unwanted.

An HTTP cookie, also called a tracking cookie, is a piece of text sent by an accessed server to the accessing browser. From then on, every time the browser accesses the server again, that particular ...

cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

Software; Malware

Also abbreviated as XSRF. A website exploit in which unauthorized commands from an attacker are executed by a website under the guide that the attacker is in fact a trusted user. It involves ...

cross-site scripting

Software; Malware

An attack technique wherein an attacker inserts malicious HTML and JavaScript into a vulnerable webpage, often in an effort to distribute malware or to steal sensitive information from the website or ...

cryptor

Software; Malware

A tool that may be used, legitimately, or illegitimately, to protect an application from being reverse-engineered, or otherwise analyzed. These tools use encryption to obfuscate the content of an ...

cybersquatting

Software; Malware

The act of registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. Also known as "typosquatting".