Related Clues:

• Pathogen — computing menace
• Transmitted cause of infection
• Harmful agent to animals and computers
• Journalist gets chop
• Cut crudely
• Windshield casualty
• Journalistic drudge (for the chop?)
• Untalented writer
• Attempt a computer crime
• One might go around
• Cause of computer malfunctions?
• Break into, as a computer
• Computer infection
• Scribbler
• Kick on the shins