drive-by download

[ drahyv-bahy doun-lohd ]

/ ˈdraɪvˌbaɪ ˌdaʊn loʊd /

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noun Digital Technology.

the installation of a virus or malware onto a computer or mobile device without the owner’s knowledge, occurring when a compromised website or email is merely viewed, without having to click on a link therein.

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Origin of drive-by download

First recorded in 2000–05

Words nearby drive-by download

drive a hard bargain, drive a nail into one's coffin, drive at, driveaway, drive-by, drive-by download, drive-by shooting, drive home, drive-in, drivel, driveline

How to use drive-by download in a sentence

He used to drive her to school once he came home from the Marines.
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The hope was that greater transparency about performance would drive results.
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You would only see it for a second, but it would drive you forward.
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A step-by-step plan to break from your various technology addictions.
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Those snakes attacked unwitting passers-by, or invaded homes and hotels.
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All along the highways and by-paths of our literature we encounter much that pertains to this "queen of plants."
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce|E. R. Billings.
Then with your victorious legions you can march south and help drive the Yankee invaders from the land.
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Wordsworth has illustrated how an unwise and importunate demand for a reason from a child may drive him into invention.
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Give not up thy heart to sadness, but drive it from thee: and remember the latter end.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version|Various
If they will come to our villages and drive us out a hundred at a time, what would they do to one man alone?
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British Dictionary definitions for drive-by download

drive-by download

noun

an incidence of an unwanted program being automatically downloaded to a computer, often without the user's knowledge

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