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The collection of programs whose primary function is to gather information secretly about the user and relay it to advertisers or other interested parties. Spyware can get in a computer as a software virus or as the result of installing a new program. Data collecting programs that are installed with the user's knowledge are not, properly speaking, spyware, if the user fully understands what data is being collected and with whom it is being shared. spyware Spyware http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvXPHGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Spyware</a> program. CyDoor CyDoor-TheProgram The collection of programs whose primary function is to gather information secretly about the user and relay it to advertisers or other interested parties. Spyware can get in a computer as a software virus or as the result of installing a new program. Data collecting programs that are installed with the user's knowledge are not, properly speaking, spyware, if the user fully understands what data is being collected and with whom it is being shared. spyware Spyware type of computer program by function A collection of types of computer programs. Each instance of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvrxE_ZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComputerProgramTypeByFunction</a> is a collection of programs (see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwJxiRJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ComputerProgram_CW</a>) whose instances all serve a similar function and can be used for a similar purpose. This purpose might be very specific (see e.g. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rveW_XZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">AutoLoanCalculatorProgram</a>) or more general (see e.g. <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwGM3oZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">FinancialProgram</a>). ComputerProgramTypeByFunction The collection of programs whose primary function is to gather information secretly about the user and relay it to advertisers or other interested parties. Spyware can get in a computer as a software virus or as the result of installing a new program. Data collecting programs that are installed with the user's knowledge are not, properly speaking, spyware, if the user fully understands what data is being collected and with whom it is being shared. spyware Spyware The collection of programs whose primary function is to gather information secretly about the user and relay it to advertisers or other interested parties. Spyware can get in a computer as a software virus or as the result of installing a new program. Data collecting programs that are installed with the user's knowledge are not, properly speaking, spyware, if the user fully understands what data is being collected and with whom it is being shared. spyware Spyware The collection of programs whose primary function is to gather information secretly about the user and relay it to advertisers or other interested parties. Spyware can get in a computer as a software virus or as the result of installing a new program. Data collecting programs that are installed with the user's knowledge are not, properly speaking, spyware, if the user fully understands what data is being collected and with whom it is being shared. spyware Spyware The collection of programs whose primary function is to record information automatically. Important specializations include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvXPHGpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Spyware</a>, instances of which are designed to gather personal information surreptitiously, and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rv25TcZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">ActivityLoggingProgram</a>, which includes as further specializations <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwU4oi5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PacketSnifferProgram</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwAZIbZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">PortScanningProgram</a>. InformationGatheringProgram information gathering program