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scareware

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English

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Informal; Uncountable

What does scareware mean?: Software that attempts to scare the user into compliance, as by displaying false warnings of virus infection.
Where does scareware come from?: Etymology tree English scare Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Germanic *samþuz /*samftuz Proto-Indo-European *-yos Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Germanic *-jaz Proto-West Germanic *-ī Proto-West Germanic *samft(ī) Old English sōfte Middle English softe English soft Proto-Germanic *warō Proto-West Germanic *waru Old English waru Middle English ware English -ware English softwarebf. English -ware English scareware From scare + -ware.

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