Related Clues:

• PC woe
• Malware product
• Unrespected writer
• Flu or fly
• Patchwork software
• Looking back, Irish king in gamey sort of transport initially quarantined in hospital?
• Wire-tapping device
• Disease-germ
• Cut the poor journalist
• Horse kept for common hire
• Chop roughly
• A kick in the shins from a horse
• Cough
• Literary drudge gets given the chop
• Poison half-a-dozen right in front of us