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Definition virus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin virus (“poison, slime, venom”). First use in the computer context by David Gerrold in his 1972 book When HARLIE Was One.

Noun

virus (countable and uncountable, plural viruses or (proscribed) viri or (proscribed) virii)

  1. (archaic) Venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc.
  2. A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and often causes disease in the host organism.
  3. A disease caused by these organisms.
  4. (computing) A type of malware which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks, often causing damage to systems and data; also computer virus.
  5. (computing, proscribed) Any type of malware.

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