Betekenis van virus In het Nederlands

• 0 an extremely small piece of organic material that causes disease in humans, animals, and plants:

  • the chickenpox/flu/herpes/mumps virus

  • Evidence suggested that the AIDS virus was spreading very quickly among the heterosexual community.

  • I don't know exactly what's wrong with her - I think she has some kind of virus.

  • Several employees were off work with a vomiting virus.

• 1 a computer program or part of a computer program that can make copies of itself and is intended to prevent the computer from working normally

• 2 a very small organism that causes disease in humans, animals, and plants

  • She’s had a virus for several days.

• 3 a hidden set of instructions in a computer program that is intended to introduce faults into a computer system or cause it to perform actions that were not planned

• 4 a harmful computer program intended to prevent computers from working normally:

  • All their customer information was wiped off the computer by a virus.

  • I got a virus alert when I downloaded my email.

  • Virus attacks are the largest source of financial loss, followed by unauthorized access.