Combine Malware And A Consulting Firm To Get: Slurpware

from the wonderful dept

Because it's getting tiresome to say virus/trojans/zombies/spyware/keylogging/phishing/etc all at once, and it's becoming increasingly clear that organized crime groups are creating more sophisticated scams that involve bits and pieces of all of this stuff, one company is now calling the combined attacks: "slurpware." Just curious... what was wrong with the commonly accepted term malware?

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    kurt, Jan 18th, 2005 @ 8:40pm

    obviously what's wrong with using the standard umbrella term 'malware' is that it doesn't gain the company using it any extra attention.

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    And the anser is...

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    Answer Boy, Jan 19th, 2005 @ 3:44am

    Scumware!

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    Slurpware

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    Carl Manion, Jan 20th, 2005 @ 2:01pm

    I agree. I don't understand why the term "slurpware" is needed when malware already defines the same thing.

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    Slurpware

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    Colin, Jan 30th, 2005 @ 3:08pm

    It's the next generation cyber crime tool, {spyware+malware] combined into Slurpware....

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