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