Today, the term is used more generally for concealment routines in a malicious program.
It does not warn the user that the document in question could be a malicious program.
The idea, company executives said, was to have a back door that allowed them to squash a malicious program if it ever appeared.
This, he said, will increase individual privacy and make it harder to write malicious programs that can be spread between computers.
Many malicious programs are packed with particular utilities in an attempt to avoid detection.
It also states that the data collected is only used for finding evidence of malicious programs and cheating.
It can allow hackers to access your computer without permission and install malicious programs.
In January 2001, when the survey first began, it identified only 308 malicious programs.
Cookies are not spyware, viruses or any other kind of malicious program.
This kind of malicious program has been long anticipated.