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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>spyware</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="spungle.html" title="spungle"/><link rel="next" href="squirrelcide.html" title="squirrelcide"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">spyware</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="spungle.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="squirrelcide.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="spyware"/><dt xmlns="" id="spyware"><b>spyware</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Software which, when installed by a user insufficiently
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enlightened to avoid it, enables third parties to snoop the user's hard
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drive or monitor their network transactions. Though the term seems to have
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entered use in the late 1990s, it achieved real popularity as applied to
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Microsoft Windows XP. Some <a href="../B/back-door.html"><i class="glossterm">back door</i></a> features in XP
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permit Microsoft to (for example) covertly scan your disk directories for
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the names of files it might deem to be <a href="../W/warez.html"><i class="glossterm">warez</i></a>.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. Systems for spying on email and web traffic, such as the FBI's
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Carnivore.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="spungle.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="squirrelcide.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">spungle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> squirrelcide</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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