Spyware have its main purpose is to gather information and send it back to the attacker, well, to
spy. The attackers don’t generally want to cause damage directly, but want to
compromise your privacy and anonymity based on some agenda they’ve got. Spyware
is intelligence gathering malware.
For example, a rootkit can also be a Trojan horse, someone could call spyware a
virus. The point is just to understand the variants that...
