If I've mistaken your question for pedantry, please forgive me. You can narrowly define malware by a quick dictionary definition[1]: > software that is intend

If I've mistaken your question for pedantry, please forgive me. You can narrowly define malware by a quick dictionary definition[1]: > software that is intended to damage or disable computers and computer systems. However, malware also has a much looser definition[2] if we don't restrict ourselves to a one sentence Google result: > Programs officially supplied by companies can be considered malware if they secretly act against the interests of the computer user. For example, Sony sold the Sony rootkit, which contained a Trojan horse embedded into CDs that silently installed and concealed itself on purchasers' computers with the intention of preventing illicit copying. It also reported on users' listening habits, and unintentionally created vulnerabilities that were then exploited by unrelated malware. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Amalware https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Amalware [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware