[Utilizer]

Lengthy article explaining the various types of malware out there and how they affect your computers in myriad ways...

[doc1019]

Just something that irritates the crap out of me. Run cleanup daily.

[Secret Agent Man]

almost thought this was an apologist piece for windows 10...

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Is ISIS really that bad?

[FourPeas]

Yes. Yet it is.

[rlmorel]

I have an extremely negative view of adware. Anything that makes me deviate from what I am trying to do is an irritant. I am one of those people that will pay money to rid of ads in a free app. (Of course, I also like to buy shareware too. I like the thought of someone writing a nice little app, and getting a little piece of money from thousands of people...)

I have noticed a very irritating form of online ads lately. It pops up in your face on a web page, so...you go to click on it to get rid of it. As you click, the whole thing shifts just a little, and...click...you have now clicked on something that launches some other web page that you now have to get rid of. The timing seems to vary on how it interacts with the mouse before it moves, as if they have programmed in a random value generator or something, so...you can’t quite predict it. It is pretty irritating, but I have to admit, I nearly very nearly admire the deviousness of it.

[Utilizer]

Oh, almost forgot: Windows-related, but not stop-the-presses -type of info, mate.

For Your Perusal...

[867V309]

But these days adware has taken on a darker meaning, and more often refers to malware that delivers unwanted ads, changes browser settings to use a different search engine, and so on.

This has been going on since before W98 if you're stupid enough to allow JavaScript in your browser.

[Deagle]

Please give me the positive side of malware?

[Mozilla]

It’s bad.

[GingisK]

One of those innocent malware things enabled someone to extract $50,000 from my back account. I’d recommend that people take it seriously.