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infect

verb adulterate, befoul, besmirch, blight, canker, cause illness, contaminare, contaminate, corrupt, debase, defile, dirty, empoison, envenom, foul, harm, make ill, make impure, pervert, poison, pollute, render unclean, smirch, soil, spoil, stain, sully, taint, tarnish, transmit disease, vitiate, vitiis inficere

infect

in international law, to taint with crime or illegality; to expose to penalty or subject to forfeiture.

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It can't stop someone from getting the virus but it will stop viruses from entering or leaving your network and infecting the rest of the organization," noted Ositis.

Ositis eShield Security Platform Protects Networks From Sobig.F with Antivirus and Antivulnerability Technology

After infecting a machine, the worm will try to apply the Microsoft patch to close the RPC hole.

Announcement from F-Secure: A New Worm Installs Security Patches; An Anti-Virus-Virus is Spreading

By infecting Windows 95 applications Babylonia spreads like a normal virus by replicating through a system using a resident copy hidden in the background.

Central Command's EVRT Warns of Babylonia, an Internet Worm Spreading Around the World with a Collection of Advanced Infection Technologies

Finally, the New York team's findings suggest that the strains of HIV infecting survivors are less virulent than the strains that sicken most people.

Staying alive: scientists study people who outwit the AIDS virus

This virus is capable of infecting both Project and Word and can travel between them.

Data Fellows Discovers the First Virus to Infect Microsoft Project; Almost All Popular Microsoft Applications Can Now be Carriers of Viruses

Protein translocation into host epithelial cells by infecting enteropathogenic Escherichia coli.

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The team also had access to the strain of virus infecting this patient during the acute phase of the illness.