Infector

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Something that infects; that which causes infection.

    "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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"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."

Etymology

From infect + -or.

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