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Spyware may be the reason your computer does not move as quickly online as you would like. "Spyware is an ever growing threat. With spyware, it can track where you're going and what you're doing," said Rob Gross, with Geeks On Call.
A general term for a program that surreptitiously monitors your actions. While they are sometimes sinister, like a remote control program used by a hacker, software companies have been known to use spyware to gather data about customers.
A technology that assists in gathering information about a person or organization without their knowledge. On the Internet, "spyware is programming that is put in someone's computer to secretly gather information about the user and relay it to advertisers or other interested parties." As such, spyware is cause for public concern about privacy on the Internet. |
