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.

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The notarized malware payloads were discovered in a recent MacOS adware campaign, disguised as Adobe Flash Player updates. Apple accidentally approved one of the most popular Mac malware threats – OSX ...

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Apple Macs are not immune to malicious attacks, but outside of some major nation-state efforts, bad actors continue to use adware as the method of choice to make money from infecting the macOS ...

Antivirus software developer Malwarebytes today shared its State of Malware Report for 2020 [PDF], which suggests that Mac malware is growing much more common. For the first time ever, Macs outpaced ...

I often warn about the dangers posed by info-stealing malware and banking trojans but there’s another mobile threat you need to worry about: adware. In fact, an adware infection can render one of the ...

Cyber attacks and malware are one of the biggest threats on the internet. Learn about the different types of malware - and how to avoid falling victim to attacks. Read now With macOS 11, also known as ...

To paraphrase the classic children’s book, if you give a mouse a cookie, it’ll just ask for another. But if you teach a mouse to make cookies, it’ll launch a cross-platform marketing campaign to ...

Antivirus software developer Malwarebytes today shared its 2021 State of Malware Report, which found that malware threat detections on Macs fell a total of 38 percent in 2020. In 2019 Malwarebytes ...

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 ...

DownloadProtect s is a Chrome adware extension that injects advertisements into web sites that you are visiting. This extension is force installed into Chrome by adware that configures Chrome group ...