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(1) Adware is software that displays advertisements to a user based on their online activity and search history. It collects the user's browsing data in the background and sends it to advertising servers. While considered a form of contextual marketing, adware can be classified as spyware if installed without a user's knowledge or consent as part of another download. There is debate around what constitutes legitimate adware versus spyware since software license agreements are rarely read.

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Ad Ware

(1) Adware is software that displays advertisements to a user based on their online activity and search history. It collects the user's browsing data in the background and sends it to advertising servers. While considered a form of contextual marketing, adware can be classified as spyware if installed without a user's knowledge or consent as part of another download. There is debate around what constitutes legitimate adware versus spyware since software license agreements are rarely read.

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(1) (ADvertisementWARE) Software that periodically pops up advertisements on a user's computer.

It displays ads targeted to the individual user based on key words entered in search engines and the types of Web sites the user visits. The marketing data are collected periodically and sent in the background to the adware Web server. Adware is known as "contextual marketing." Adware or Spyware? If adware is installed in the user's machine without disclosure, it is considered "spyware." Such programs are often delivered as part of another download the user actually did want, but without any notification. Since software licenses are rarely read, there is controversy over what is legitimate adware versus spyware. http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=adware&i=37577,00.asp

adware [ad-wair] Show IPA noun Computers . 1. software that displays advertisements and is integrated intoanother program offered at no c harge or at low cost. 2. a type of spyware that gathers information about aninternet user's browsing habits and disp lays targeted orcontextual advertisements. Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Dictionary, Random House, Inc. 2011 World English Dictionary adware (dw) n 1 a type of computer software that collects information about auser's browsing patterns in o . rder to display relevantadvertisements in his or her Web browser 2 computer software that is given to a user with advertisementsalready embedded . Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition 2009 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009

Computing Dictionary adware definition software Any kind of software which is distributed free of charge along withadvertisements that are either placed on the website from whichthe software is distributed or displayed by the prog ram while it isrunning. Nagware might be considered a special case of adware where theprogram tries to persuade the user to buy a license for the programitself. (2007-11-20) The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, Denis Howe 2010 http://foldoc.org http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/adware

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