Some thoughts about maliciousness of joke malware, educational malware and other "gray" areas. (thread)
Malware is any program that does harm to a system or user.
Harm or damage is not limited to things you can count as monetary loss. It can also be sleepless nights, feeling anxious or frightented, having personal data leaked that might or might not be used to harm you later.
Some arbitrary facts about malware detection names and detection rates on VT.
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(1) Detection names usually include information about platform, malware type, family and variant, sometimes also hints about the technology that was used to detect the malware.
(2) The malware type and family in a detection name are NOT reliable.