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National Teaching and Learning Change ProgrammeInformation and Communication Technology: Dictionary

virus

A program designed to copy itself between and within computers, and designed to cause harm to the system in some way. The virus includes instructions to do the copying automatically, via a disk or network. The virus may also include instructions to damage data (in the memory or on a disk) or affect the computer

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