Malware
Malware is software designed to infiltrate or damage a computer system without the owner's informed consent. The term is a portmanteau of the words malicious and software. The expression is a general term used by computer professionals to mean a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software or program code.
Flash vulnerability still open to attacks via the clipboard.
Wed, 08/20/2008 - 4:23pm — Scott LarsonThere is still a Flash vulnerability out in the wild that can cause you to inadvertently click and install software that could damage your computer or at the very least serve up advertisements that you don't need and cause your computer's performance to degrade.
Flash is a piece of software that runs on most computers these days to play movies or videos from places like youtube.com or cnn.com.
