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Researchers have established that primates use specialized "face recognition" greyware to identify faces this sometimes backfires, deceiving us into perceiving faces on Mars or in tortillas.
A little math help Steven Barnes 2009
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Is the premise of "sexual orifice recognition" greyware less credible?
A little math help Steven Barnes 2009
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Use desktop anti-virus software preferably with built-in adware/greyware/scumware detection I use free AVG for my PC
Avoiding Identity Theft « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy 2006
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Main reason for this kind of paranoia are different maliciously software, spyware, greyware and computer viruses.
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Dialers, potentially dangerous tools, and other greyware were not included, as their classification is debatable.
Ars Technica 2009
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Work smart Racehorse teams use modern development practices, and automate their work as much as possible, in order to concentrate on using their very expensive greyware for the things that computers can't do.
Artima Weblogs 2008
vanishedone commented on the word greyware
Or grayware in American English: according to Wikipedia this encompasses adware and spyware, though personally I'd consider spyware to be fully fledged malware.
January 5, 2009
hugovk commented on the word greyware
greyware, n.
The Register, 10 November 2018:
December 31, 2018