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Malware is an abbreviation for 'malicious software'.
An issue of bonus shares in proportion to existing shares held.


These are software programs designed to damage a computer system or cause other unwanted or unauthorised actions.
A 'one-for-one' scrip issue would mean that one new share was issued for each share held.  This would effectively halve the share price; each shareholder would still have the same share value.


Examples include viruses, worms, trojan horses, spyware and ransomware.
== See also ==
 
* [[Share split]]
 
* [[Scrip dividend]]
==See also==
*[[Cyber security]]
*[[Cyberthreat]]
*[[Ransomware]]
*[[Trojan horse]]

Revision as of 21:59, 19 August 2013

An issue of bonus shares in proportion to existing shares held.

A 'one-for-one' scrip issue would mean that one new share was issued for each share held. This would effectively halve the share price; each shareholder would still have the same share value.

See also