Adware is a type of Advertising Display Software. It will install on users' computers along with other program downloads without their authorization, aiming at releasing commercial advertisements that may be unexpected or unwanted by users. Annoyingly, normally users are forced to visit the frequently-appearing advertisements, making the computer perform extremely sluggishly or crash randomly if it is an old computer.
No, there is no adware or any virus on WikiAnswers
Yes, it does. It has Adware. And, it infected my computer.
Most adware consists of cookies and hidden tags, not viruses. However, some adware has the potential to spread if you forward a file to which it is attached.
Adware is a type virus that installs addons on your computer, so you end up getting large amount of advertisements running as you open internet explorer.
You can download free Adware removers from product websites such as Lavasoft and MalwareBytes. You can also get free Adware removers from the Anti-Virus section of Cnet.
There are many known adware removal tools. Examples of adware removal tools include popular on the web sources such as Lava Soft and Norton Anti-Virus.
It is not a virus, its adware, the last person must not know what adware is, and they don't seem to know much about computers. Adware is malicious software that plants itself into your computer and makes ads that if you click them, it will download a virus, but not all the ads pulls off the web are viruses. It's very annoying, but not a virus, but it will download viruses. Delete it.
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I can give you 3 there is adware, spyware and malware
It has a adware. It annoys us with search.us toolbar
You wont get a virus if the software is from a reliable source and the software is not shareware supported by adware.
Sadly.....Yes, i loved zwinky, i used to play everyday, until..... I did a virus scan, and well I got 137 ADWARE and 5 Pups. SO i deleteed zwinky did a virus search and Boom all gone AVOID AT ALL COST IT MAY LOOK COOL BUT VIRUS and ADWARE and Pups. DO NOT INSTALL