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snoopware

noun

Etymology

From snoop + -ware.

  1. borrowed from snoepen — “to pry, eat in secret, sneak”
  2. suffixed as snoopware — “snoop + ware”

Definitions

  1. Software covertly installed on a computer in order to monitor the user's activity or to…

    Software covertly installed on a computer in order to monitor the user's activity or to steal confidential data.

    • If the snoopware was installed after the firewall, check the firewall's configuration screen. The software will probably have been added to the firewall's list of applications that are given permission to connect to the outside world.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for snoopware. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA