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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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incorrect detection
Software; Malware
A type of detection in which a legitimate program may have been mistakenly classified as malware or potentially unwanted software. If you would like to report an incorrect detection, you can use the ...
information disclosure
Software; Malware
A vulnerability in which information is made available, often inadvertently, by an application, either to users to whom the information should not be made available, or in a situation in which the ...
insufficient bounds
Software; Malware
A condition which may lead to a buffer overflow; this occurs when the boundaries for a container are too small for the data being written into it.
insufficient validation
Software; Malware
A condition in which the type of data written into a container is not checked properly, thus possibly causing errors in the program.
integer overflow
Software; Malware
Occurs when an integer value is incremented by an application until it becomes a value too large to fit in the current representation; this may be a problem when the integer value is used to ...
joke program
Software; Malware
A program that pretends to do something malicious but actually does nothing harmful (for example, pretending to delete files or format disks).
