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A program that modifies other programs or databases in unauthorised ways; especially one that propagates a virus or Trojan horse. See also worm, mockingbird. The analogy, of course, is with phage viruses in biology.

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Nearby terms: pH « ph « phacker « phage » phase » phase alternating line » Phase Encoded

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