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spyware
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n. 1. Software which, when installed by a user insufficiently enlightened to
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avoid it, enables third parties to snoop the user's hard drive or monitor
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their network transactions. Though the term seems to have entered use in the
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late 1990s, it achieved real popularity as applied to Microsoft Windows XP.
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Some back door features in XP permit Microsoft to (for example) covertly
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scan your disk directories for the names of files it might deem to be warez.
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2. Systems for spying on email and web traffic, such as the FBI's Carnivore.
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