Malware is an insidious infection that will steal productivity from your enterprise and potentially wreak havoc on your network.

To prevent and counteract malware, it’s important to know the terminology surrounding it. This list of terms, written by Mark W. Kaelin for TechRepublic Premium, will help you grasp the vocabulary that describes malware and the technology that spawns it.

• Featured definition from the download:

  Stegomalware

  A type of malware that uses steganography to avoid detection. Steganography is the practice of concealing a file, message, image, or video within another file, message, image, or video. For the perpetrators, the advantage of using steganography is that the intended secret message does not attract attention to itself.

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