Mal­ware

The term is made up of the terms “mali­cious” and “soft­ware”. Mal­ware is the generic term for soft­ware which exe­cutes mali­cious func­tions on a device (such as viruses, worms, Tro­jans, ransomware).

See also: Adware, Back door, Botnet, Drive-By Down­load, Key log­gers, Ran­somware, Rootkit, Scare­ware, Ses­sion Riding, Spy­ware, Trojan Horse, Virus, Worm