Malware
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Malware (a portmanteau for malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network, leak private information, gain unauthorized access to information or systems, deprive access to information, or which unknowingly interferes with the user's computer security and privacy.
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See also
- Botnet
- Browser hijacking
- Comparison of antivirus software
- Computer security
- Cuckoo's egg (metaphor)
- Cybercrime
- Cyber spying
- Domain generation algorithm
- Facebook malware
- File binder
- Identity theft
- Industrial espionage
- Linux malware
- Malvertising
- Phishing
- Hacktivism
- Riskware
- Security in Web apps
- Social engineering (security)
- Targeted threat
- Technical support scam
- Telemetry software
- Typosquatting
- Web server overload causes
- Webattacker
- Zombie (computer science)
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