57. View. comments. Short days, miserable weather and a lack of cash. It's no wonder January is the worst month for couples. Average Brits argue rise to an average of eight minutes a day during the month-and two thirds have broken up with a lover at the start of the year, research has revealed. The January blues means people spend 15 hours a day at home-causing 'cabin fever'.
Middleware is the software that connects software components or enterprise applications. Middleware is the software layer that lies between the operating system and the applications on each side of a distributed computer network (Figure 1-1). Typically, it supports complex, distributed business software applications.
Definition of: scareware scareware A warning message that pops up from a website that claims the user's computer is currently contaminated or not running properly. Also called fake antivirus and rogue antivirus, scareware is a dishonest attempt to cause a user to purchase antivirus, registry cleaner or some other software that repairs problems or enhances performance. Worse yet, scareware may be used to entice the user to install phony software that implants a real virus or some other malware. In either case, the dire warning frightens people into taking action. See ransomware, spyware and wares.