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shell virus

A Dictionary of the Internet | 2001 | 237 words | Copyright

shell virus A VIRUS which infects a computer by wrapping itself around code which already exists, such as the OPERATING SYSTEM code which writes to a FILE. Whenever a program attempts to use the enclosed code the virus code is executed.

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