Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Software that secretly gathers information about a person or organization.
- n. Any malicious software that is designed to take partial or full control of a computer's operation without the knowledge of its user.
Wiktionary
WordNet 3.0
- n. computer software that obtains information from a user's computer without the user's knowledge or consent
Etymologies
- From spy + -ware (Wiktionary)
Examples
“- Consumer from California The term spyware may be amorphous, but there is no doubt that its negative impact is real.”
“I have never actually seen a virus from the web on any of my pc's, spyware is another story.”
Clean Up And Revive Your Bloated, Sluggish Mac | Lifehacker Australia
“For them, slowdowns are common, viruses are a nuisance, and spyware is rampant.”
Clean Up And Revive Your Bloated, Sluggish Mac | Lifehacker Australia
“And, since they are dedicated devices, the possibility of getting a virus, or spyware, is about the same as when you hook your Xbox 360 or PS3 to your broadband connection.”
“Is it your belief that Microsoft purposefully created software that allowed for the ease with which spyware is deployed or that it did so quite by accident (nonetheless bearing the blame for the proliferation this plague)?”
“CNET News – Why they say spyware is good for you, November 7, 2005”
“Spyware defined p2p news/p2pnet: Broadly speaking, spyware is software as affecting one or more of these areas:”
“Assume that all other sites contain spyware or malicious code which may not be directly trusted.”
“Recently the popular peer-to-peer application Shareaza has been promoted in spyware form.”
“While the existence of spyware is now something many Internet users have grown to expect, it is hard to imagine the shock when you realise that a community-built program that you are a part of has been hijacked.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spyware’.
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-Ware Ever
Shareware and its friends.
shareware, cardware, postcardware, beerware, emailware, freeware, otherware, requestware, abandonware, careware, catware, donateware and 136 more...
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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Cookie Monster
Please list your favourite cookie! May I suggest you leave out the generic bit unless it's absolutely essential, eg. list chocolate-chip rather than chocolate-chip cookie. On the other hand, bran...
wagon wheel, snickerdoodle, nuß-ecken, thin mint, lebkuchen, jammy dodger, charleston square, chocolate kimberley, whoopie pie, pufferdoodle, pfeffernüsse, chocolate crinkle and 9 more...
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warez
Computer-related words ending with -ware
software, hardware, wetware, vapourware, shovelware, freeware, adware, shareware, careware, charityware, helpware, goodware and 24 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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These are a few of my least favorite ...
Romantic hatred.
hella, wifebeater, pwn, surly, pedantic, banal, torpor, squalor, insipid, wow, spazz, jejune and 14 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for spyware.
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