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countervirus

n. A computer virus engineered to combat another specific computer virus.

Usage examples of "countervirus".

Our countervirus had to be introduced into the Conqueror program, which had been very been cleverly designed to defend itself.

The virus, he thought, must have been armed with a countervirus of its own, lying latent, waiting to ambush any counterattack.