data

spyware

and data miner

n. a kind of malicious software that gathers private information from a personal computer and sends it to another computer. I have a little program that roots out spyware from my computer. It found a data miner lurking among my digital images.

data miner

verb

See spyware

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Eleonora	e-le-o-NO-rah (German), E-le-o-no-rah (Finnish), e-le-aw-NAW-rah (Polish)	Italian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Bulgarian
Royal	ROI-əl	English
Nyah	-	Eastern African, Swahili
Vasa	-	Macedonian
Kuwat	KOO-waht	Indonesian, Javanese
Deirbhile	-	Irish