The phrase "a benign program" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a software application that is harmless or not intended to cause any damage or disruption.
Example: "The IT department assured us that the new software update is a benign program that will enhance our system's performance without any risks."
Alternatives: "a harmless application" or "a non-threatening software".
A person close to the investigation said the intruders had used a program called QAZ Trojan, which relies on what members of the computer underground call "social engineering" -- the ability to fool a computer user into running a seemingly benign program that performs a furtive task, undetected.
In most cases, "business as usual" is no benign program.
Though "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers," a Fox program that caused a parental outcry over violence in the early 1990's, was still going relatively strong, there was an overall trend toward more benign programming in children's TV, like "Goosebumps," based on the R. L. Stine books, on Fox.
Our system is designed to model the general interactions between benign programs and the underlying operating system (OS).
We investigate observable differences in the behavior of bots and benign programs, focusing on the way that bots respond to data received over the network.
Testing indicates behavioral separation of major bot families (agobot, DSNXbot, evilbot, G-SySbot, sdbot, Spybot) from benign programs with low error rate.
Our thesis in this mobile app classification work is to advocate the approach of benign property enforcement, i.e., extracting unique behavioral properties from benign programs and designing corresponding classification policies.
Data mining methods (Logistic Regression, Artificial Neural Networks and Decision Trees) are used in [21] to automatically identify critical instruction sequences that can distinguish between malicious and benign programs.
By working with Iranian front companies in Azerbaijan and Turkey, they'd tricked the German authorities into thinking the parts were for benign programs in those territories.
Once upon a time, Find&Save was a fairly benign little program designed to offer its users coupons to nearby stores.
And then there's this, from the Times today: Under the cover of a benign government information-gathering program, a Defense Department official set up a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan to help track and kill suspected militants, according to military officials and businessmen in Afghanistan and the United States.
