infested

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used to form adjectives meaning that a place has harmful animals, insects, or something else present in large numbers or in a large amount, causing disease, damage, or danger:

rat-infested New immigrants had to live in rat-infested tenements.

shark-infested They were stranded in shark-infested waters after their boat sank.

The guards slept in flea-infested barracks.

Many regard the area as blighted and crime-infested.

used to form adjectives meaning that a computer, computer program, etc. is affected by something harmful such as a virus:

Virus-infested emails are all too common.

If you experienced the blue screen of death after installing the security patch, it could be a sign that your computer is Trojan-infested.