SPYWARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spyware mean? 

• SPYWARE (noun)
  The noun SPYWARE has 1 sense:

1. computer software that obtains information from a user's computer without the user's knowledge or consent

  Familiarity information: SPYWARE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPYWARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Computer software that obtains information from a user's computer without the user's knowledge or consent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("spyware" is a kind of...):

computer software; package; software; software package; software program; software system ((computer science) written programs or procedures or rules and associated documentation pertaining to the operation of a computer system and that are stored in read/write memory)