"infector" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From infect + -or.",
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      "form": "infectors",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "That's when a rapidly proliferating virus from Israel dubbed Jerusalem bogged down computers around the world, and Brain--a \"boot-sector infector\" from Pakistan that hit MS-DOS systems--went on a rampage.",
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        "Something that infects; that which causes infection."
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  "word": "infector"
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  "etymology_text": "From infect + -or.",
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        "Something that infects; that which causes infection."
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