Adware is a type of malware that displays unwanted ads and can track your online activity. Adware spreads through free app downloads, unsafe websites, or phishing emails. Signs of adware include ...

One Updater is a potentially unwanted program that claims it updates your programs, but in reality just installs other unwanted programs, PUPs, adware, and browser extension on to the computer. This ...

Google has struggled for years to keep malicious applications from sneaking into the Play Store, but a new round of takedowns is highlighting the challenge of getting the problem under control. At the ...

PBlock+ is a Google Chrome extension that claims to be a popup blocker, but instead displays advertisements in the browser. When installed, this extension will open new tabs in the browser that ...

A unique form of advanced persistent adware (APA) recently found by the Booz Allen Dark Labs’ Advanced Threat Hunt team is lurking on enterprise networks and can evade traditional forms of ...

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How to know if your computer is infected with the ad-based malware. — -- Adware continues to be one of the most pervasive scams on the Internet, according to Google, which found more than five ...

I take security and privacy pretty seriously. After all, I am the Security Editor for MakeUseOf, so it stands to reason I'm keenly aware of malware and other threats. But during a recent antivirus ...

Computers exposed to the Internet face a possible onslaught of viruses and adware. This necessitates protection against such threats. It also necessitates periodic checks for any software that may ...

Researchers say that 14.8 percent of Android users who were targeted with mobile malware or adware last year were left with undeletable files. A healthy percentage of Android users targeted by mobile ...

We detected a large adware campaign running for about a year, with the involved apps installed eight million times from Google Play alone. We identified 42 apps on Google Play as belonging to the ...