computer virus

1. 1.

   a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer

   “a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance”

   Synonymsvirus

   Broadermalevolent program

Questions about computer virus

What does computer virus mean?

computer virus means "a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer".

What is another word for computer virus?

Close synonyms include virus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is computer virus a common word?

computer virus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.