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Resident definition - hacker
A piece of code, whether a regular program or a virus, that is not cleared from memory after its execution. A resident virus loads its replication module into memory and makes sure that the operating system always calls this module when it wants to execute another program, thus allowing the virus to spread.

See Also: Means of Infection; Virus.

Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by Bernadette Schell and Clemens Martin.
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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