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, 18 Jan 2005 @ 8:40pm

    No Subject Given

    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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  • identicon
    Answer Boy, 19 Jan 2005 @ 3:44am

    And the anser is...

    Scumware!

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  • identicon
    Carl Manion, 20 Jan 2005 @ 2:01pm

    Slurpware

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

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  • identicon
    Colin, 30 Jan 2005 @ 3:08pm

    Slurpware

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

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