赛门铁克安全响应术语表[3]

一个会导致各种各样的良性行为显示在你的电脑上的无害程序（例如一个不期望出现的屏幕保护程序）。
A harmless program that causes various benign activities to display on your computer (e.g., an unexpected screen-saver).
Category:Trojan horse
种类：特洛依木马
一个既不复制也不拷贝自己，但却可以损害或者危及电脑安全的一种程序。典型的样子：它可能会依赖于电子邮件把它发送给你，它自己不会发送邮件，它可能会通过一个玩笑程序或一些种类的软件的形式到达你的电脑。
A program that neither replicates or copies itself, but does damage or compromises the security of the computer. Typically it relies on someone emailing it to you, it does not email itself, it may arrive in the form of a joke program or software of some sort.
Category: Virus
种类：病毒
一段可复制，可感染另一个程序、引导区、分区表、或可把自己放入有宏支持的文档中的一段程序和代码。大多数的病毒只是复制，但也有不少进行破坏。
A program or code that replicates, that is infects another program, boot sector, partition sector or document that supports macros by inserting itself or attaching itself to that medium. Most viruses just replicate, a lot also do damage.
Category: Worm
种类：蠕虫
一段进行复制它自己的程序。例如从一张磁盘驱动器到另一个，或者通过使用电子邮件或者一些其他的传输装置复制自己。它会进行破坏并且危及电脑安全。它可能会通过一个玩笑程序或一些种类的软件的形式到达你的电脑。
A program that makes copies of itself, for example from one disk drive to another, or by copying itself using email or some other transport mechanism. It may do damage and compromise the security of the computer. It may arrive in the form of a joke program or software of some sort.
Variants
变种
直接从已知的病毒中“借”代码的病毒新模样，用来改变地位。变种经常在病毒家族名称后被加一个或者多个字母，例如：VBS.LoveLetter.B，VBS.LoveLetter.C等等。.
New strains of viruses that "borrow" code directly from other known viruses, to varying degrees. Variants are usually identifed by a letter, or letters, following the virus family name, eg. VBS.LoveLetter.B., VBS.LoveLetter.C, etc.

Causes system instability
导致系统不稳定
这一有效载荷会导致电脑死机或者进入一种不期望的行为表现。
This payload might cause the computer to crash or to behave in an unexpected fashion.
Compromises security settings
危及安全设置
这一有效载荷会尝试获得使用密码或者其他系统级别的安全设置。它也可能会搜索电脑的INTERNET处理成分来安装一个可以使一些人通过INTERNET来进行远程控制的程序在系统上的这种机会。
This payload might attempt to gain access to passwords or other system-level security settings. It might also search for openings in the Internet processing components of the computer to install a program on that system that could be controlled remotely by someone over the Internet.
Damage
破坏
破坏成分衡量了病毒可能产生的威胁所造成的损害。该方法包括触发事件、阻塞Email系统、删除或修改文件、释放机密信息、性能降低、病毒代码中的错误、危及安全的设置、和使修改变得简单。
The damage component measures the amount of harm that a given threat might inflict. This measurement includes triggered events, clogging email servers, deleting or modifying files, releasing confidential information, performance degradation, errors in the virus code, compromising security settings, and ease by which the damage might be fixed.
Degrades performance
降低性能
这个有效载荷会使电脑操作慢下来。这可能包括分配可用内存，创建文件而消耗磁盘空间，或者导致程序装载或执行缓慢。