malwares
- 1Plural of malware. Rare; used mainly in technical writing, since malware is usually uncountable.
Security researchers cataloged dozens of new malwares discovered in the past quarter.
Modern antivirus tools detect most common malwares before they cause any damage.
Note
A count plural built on a word that usually refuses one. Malware normally behaves as a mass noun, like software, so most writers say "malware" or "pieces of malware" when there are several programs. The -s form appears in technical writing to count or compare individual malicious programs or strains. In general prose it can look like a slip, and "malware strains" keeps the counting without the unusual plural.
malwares is a form of malware
malware, noun: Software deliberately built to operate in a malicious, undesirable way. Full entry
- Forms
- malwaremalwares plural
- Spelling
- malware → malwares: add -s
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