malevolent program meaning

• Noun: malevolent program
  1. A computer program designed to have undesirable or harmful effects

  Derived forms: malevolent programs

  Type of: computer program, computer programme [Brit], program, programme [Brit, Cdn]

• malevolent:    Adjective: malevol ...
• program:    Noun: program  ...
• advanced program-to-program communications:    [Computer]<netw ...

Examples

1. These patches are updated whenever new malevolent programs are unleashed.
2. The malevolent program is expected to launch a powerful attack on the Internet starting at 8 p . m . EDT Tuesday.
3. Up to now _ and things are changing so fast you can't count on this in the future _ all of these viruses and malevolent programs arrive in an attachment.
4. In the modern version, a malevolent program is masked by a seemingly benign pointer known as a universal resource locator, or URL, which is the fundamental underpinning of the World Wide Web.
5. The story follows Flynn's son Sam, who responds to a message from his long-lost father and is transported into a virtual reality called the Grid, where Sam, his father and the algorithm Quorra, stop the malevolent program CLU from invading the human world.