Sentence examples for malicious types from inspiring English sources

What is the virus definition update? A. In simple terms, a virus definition file is a library of known viruses, worms and other malicious types of software that can infect your computer.

Eric Raymond, president of Open Source Initiative, a group that promotes the free publication of computer programming languages owned by corporations, said real hackers give their names readily while wannabes and malicious types "try to build a mystique through concealment and secrecy".

A nearly 2-year-old bug in Mail allowed malicious types to include executable code in the resource fork of a file, without changing its MIME type.

Many types of adware and spyware are more of a nuisance than a threat, but there are some very malicious types of spyware out there as well.

To overcome this challenge, this paper presents SMART, a soft computing system that simultaneously detects benign and malicious types of robot agents from web server logs and can automatically adapt to the session characteristics of a web server.

This "particularly malicious" type of spyware detects every keystroke made on a computer and can pick up passwords and other sensitive information, Mr. Newman said.

Several others were cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities, an especially flexible and malicious type of attack, in which hackers inject their own code into a domain or Web application.

We combine the utility matrix of Table 1 and the utility matrix of Table 2 to obtain Table 3 whose components are expected utilities of malicious type relay and cooperative type relay.

(For more information, this Infosec article differentiates one virus or malicious code type from another).

For each relay, there are two possible types, malicious with probability μ i t k and cooperative with probability 1 - μ i t k.

A recent series of attacks on Brazil's largest banks, which took down their Web sites for a short time, is an example of the malicious black-hat type.