Explore the role of adware in marketing, its history, and potential risks. Learn how adware works, its impact on computing, and protective measures against malicious versions.

Apple recently revealed a new set of rules that app developers must follow. From October, App Store developers will have to clearly and explicitly say just how users' personal data is used, secured ...

Call it spyware, or adware, or just plain annoying — but it’s everywhere. Programs designed to deliver pop-up advertising have multiplied like viruses in recent months and consumers should get used to ...

Adware company Direct Revenue, like rival adware companies, often has found itself on the defensive--faced with consumer complaints about ad-serving software that ended up on their computers without ...

Among the behavioral targeting ad options available, some fall into the adware category, serving behaviorally-targeted ads to users who have downloaded free software. Users have been known to lump ...

This is a guest post by Malwarebytes security researcher Pieter Arntz who takes a look back at the early 2000s when he was not employed in the cybersecurity industry but was part of a group of expert ...