Also called a
dropper program or a
virus dropper, a program that when run will install a
virus,
Trojan horse or
worm onto a
hard drive,
floppy disk or other
memory media. The dropper itself is not a virus – it does not replicate; instead, it’s more like a Trojan horse in that it carries the malicious code with it and is not detected by virus-scanning software because it is not an infected file but carries the code to “drop” a virus into a system. Droppers are uncommon.
