...sent in large amounts to a mailing list or a newsgroup. Spyware Also called adware, spyware is any software that covertly gathers user information through...or her knowledge, usually for advertising purposes. Streaming A technique for transferring data such that it can be processed as a steady and continuous...

...update service to download the most current virus detection information. WHAT IS SPYWARE? Spyware is any software that covertly gathers user information through...without his or her knowledge, usually for advertising, marketing or sales purposes. IS SPYWARE BAD? Yes. Aside from the questions of ethics and privacy, Spyware...

...engines, like Alta Vista, have many spiders working in parallel. Spyware, also called adware, is any software that covertly gathers user information through...programs that can be downloaded from the internet. Once installed, the spyware monitors user activity on the internet and transmits that information in...

...techniques are forms of spread spectrum. US National Information Assurance (IA) Glossary Spyware Any software that covertly gathers user information through...or her knowledge, usually for advertising purposes. Network Frontiers SQL injection A form of attack on a database-driven Web site in which the attacker...

...computer and send them to some remote location on the Internet. 15 Spyware applications typically are bundled as a hidden component of freeware or shareware...programs that can be downloaded from the Internet. Once installed, the spyware monitors user activity on the Internet and transmits that information in...

...adware, foistware, malware, pestware, scumware, sneakware, snoopware, and trespassware) includes "[a]ny software that covertly gathers user information through...or her knowledge, usually for advertising purposes" (FTC, 2004b). The definition is so broad that it may cover software that is beneficial and benign or...

...that record every keystroke as an Internet user logs onto his computer or a banking website), spyware (software that covertly gathers user information through the user's Internet connection, without the user's knowledge), and botnets (networks of computers that criminals have compromised and taken...

...can download new definitions as and when there is time to do so. 4.10.6.5 Anti-spyware Spyware is any software that covertly gathers user information through the user's Internet connection without the person's knowledge, usually for advertising purposes. Spyware applications are typically bundled...

...main issue regarding spyware centers on the matter of privacy. Webopedia (2004) defines spyware as any software that covertly gathers user information through...programs that can be downloaded from the Internet. Once installed, the spyware monitors user activity on the Internet and transmits that information in...