Evelyn Birch is a freelance content writer whose desktop computer has been infected with a software program that installed itself without her knowledge. The program monitors the websites she visits, her e-mail communications, etc. Data gathered from the monitoring activity is sent to a remotely placed hacker. Which of the following software programs is most likely to have infected Evelyn's computer?

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Spyware is a type of software that is designed to monitor a user's computer activity and collect data without the user's knowledge or consent. This matches the symptoms described in the scenario, where a program was installed without the user's knowledge and is monitoring her online activities. Web crawlers are used by search engines to index websites, black swan refers to a statistical concept, and a firewall is a security tool used to control network traffic.

Evelyn Birch Is a Freelance Content Writer Whose Desktop Computer