💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Madware"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| badwarenoun | (computing) Malware. |
| adwarenoun | (computing) A software application that includes advertisements, which are displayed while the software is running. Developers use adware as a source of income and to keep the costs of the software down (usually making it free). Some adware programs can include spyware. |
| crapwarenoun | (computing, informal) Unwanted software that comes pre-installed with personal computers or mobile devices. |
| malwarenoun | (computing) Software which has been designed to operate in a malicious, undesirable manner. |
| greywarenoun | A style of ancient grey pottery painted with geometric patterns. |
| pornwarenoun | (computing) Pornographic software or malware. |
| bannerwarenoun | (computing) software that contains banner advertising for other software by the same maker |
| scumwarenoun | (computing, informal, derogatory) malware |
| crudwarenoun | (computing, informal) Crapware. |
| junkwarenoun | (computing) Any malicious or unwanted software. |
| malcodenoun | (computing) malicious code |
| hijackwarenoun | (computing) Malicious software that commandeers other software, especially a web browser, so as to affect its behaviour. |
| begwarenoun | (computing, slang, derogatory) nagware |
| annoywarenoun | (computing, informal) Software that annoys the user, as by displaying constant advertisements or reminders to register. |
| stalkerwarenoun | (computing, informal) Synonym of creepware. |
| fatwarenoun | (computing, informal) Bloatware. |
| cardwarenoun | (computing) Synonym of postcardware. |
| bloatwarenoun | (computing) Unwanted pre-installed software, especially on a smartphone. |
| riskwarenoun | (computing, rare) Software that may pose a risk to a computer on which it is installed. |
| virusnoun | A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure that consists of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and that sometimes causes disease in the host organism (such agents are often classed as nonliving infectious particles and less often as microorganisms). |
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