phage
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phage
[fāj] McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
phage
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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