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A type of malware that, when executed, replicates by inserting copies of itself (possibly modified) into other computer programs, data files, or the boot sector of the hard drive; when this replication succeeds, the affected areas are then said to be «infected».
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus)
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