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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

programa malicioso

Pronunciation / Transliteration: programa malicioso

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Malware/ˈmæl.wɛər/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"Debes actualizar tu antivirus para evitar la entrada de malware."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    Software that is specifically designed to disrupt, damage, or gain unauthorized access to a computer system.

    "The company's network was infected with dangerous malware."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

A portmanteau coined in the late 20th century, combining the clipping of the English adjective 'malicious' (derived from Latin 'maliciosus', from 'malus' meaning bad) and the noun 'software' (from 'soft' and 'hardware'). It emerged in computing contexts during the 1990s as a concise collective term for hostile or intrusive computer programs.

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