COMPUTER VIRUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does computer virus mean? 

• COMPUTER VIRUS (noun)
  The noun COMPUTER VIRUS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: COMPUTER VIRUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPUTER VIRUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

computer virus; virus

Context example:

a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance

Hypernyms ("computer virus" is a kind of...):

malevolent program (a computer program designed to have undesirable or harmful effects)