Spyware/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Information security [r]: The set of policies and protective measures used to ensure appropriate confidentiality, integrity and availability to information; usually assumed to be information in a computer or telecommunications network but the principles extend to people and the physical world ^[e]
  • Confidentiality [r]: Assurance that information will not be disclosed to unauthorized parties ^[e]
• Malware [r]: A term created from the words "malicious" and "software", used to describe undesirable or harmful software and changes to a computer. ^[e]

Other related topics

• Virus (computers) [r]: A piece of malware that can exist only as part of another, authorized piece of software, which is an unauthorized consumer of resources on a computer; it may or may not propagate to other computers inside software sent to them ^[e]
• Worm (computers) [r]: A form of malware that can spread, among networked computers, without human interaction. ^[e]