Shareware software is typically obtained free of charge, either by downloading
from the internet or on magazine cover-disks. A user tries out the program,
and thus shareware has also been known as 'try before you buy', demoware,
trialware and by many other names. A shareware program is accompanied
by a request for payment, and the software's distribution license often
requires such a payment.
Source code – (commonly just source or code) is any
series of statements written in some human-readable computer programming
language. In modern programming languages, the source code which constitutes
a program is usually in several
text files, but the same source code may be printed in a book or recorded
on tape (usually without a filesystem).
The term is typically used in the context of a particular piece of computer
software. A computer program's source code is the collection of files
that can be converted from human-readable form to an equivalent computer-executable
form.
Spyware - In the field of computing,
the term spyware refers to a broad category of malicious
software designed to intercept or take partial control of a computer's
operation without the informed
consent of that machine's owner or legitimate user. While the term
taken literally suggests software that surreptitiously monitors the user,
it has come to refer more broadly to software that subverts the computer's
operation for the benefit of a third party.
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Virus - In computer
security technology, a virus is a self-replicating/self-reproducing-automation
program that
spreads by inserting copies of itself into other executable
code or documents. A computer virus behaves in a way similar to a biological
virus, which spreads by inserting itself into living cells. Extending
the analogy, the insertion of a virus into the program is termed as an
infection, and the infected file (or executable code that is not part
of a file) is called a host. Viruses are one of the several types of malicious
software or malware.
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XML - Short for Extensible Markup Language, a specification developed
by the W3C. XML is a pared-down version of SGML, designed especially for
Web documents. It allows designers to create their own customized tags,
enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation
of data between applications and between organizations.