infector

See also: infecter

English

Etymology

infect +‎ -or.

Noun

infector (plural infectors)

  1. Something that infects; that which causes infection.
    • 2000 September 15, Robert Koenig, “COMPUTER SCIENCE: Flushing Out Nasty Viruses in the Balkans”, in Science‎, volume 289, number 5486, DOI:10.1126/science.289.5486.1863, pages 1863-1865:
      That's when a rapidly proliferating virus from Israel dubbed Jerusalem bogged down computers around the world, and Brain--a "boot-sector infector" from Pakistan that hit MS-DOS systems--went on a rampage.
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