Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index A vector in computing, more precisely, when talking about malicious code such as viruses or worm, is the method this code uses to propagate itself or infect the computer. Some common vectors: buffer overflows HTML email with JavaScript or other scripting enhancements networking protocol flaws -- this is how the recent Blaster worm was able to propagate See Vector for other meanings of the term vector. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.