How to Use adware in a Sentence

adware

noun

• Hence, the pain points: adware, poor battery life, and long boot times.
  — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 31 July 2018
• In fact, Jamf had flagged a version of the Shlayer adware that was actively exploiting the bug.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 26 Apr. 2021
• Use a malware scanner to find and remove the adware (ESET offers a free scanner at https://www.eset.com/online-scanner).
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 May 2017
• Even the trojan’s payload turns out to be ho-hum: garden variety adware.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 25 Jan. 2020
• The NewTab threat, for example, is adware often hidden in fake map, fake flight or fake package tracking pages.
  — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2020
• A day later, the Copyfish extension was updated with the adware.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2017
• In an instance of Cimpli adware that Kaspersky observed, the malware first poses as another program, in this case Any Search.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 25 Jan. 2020
• Reed also notes that he's started seeing Mac malware like adware evolve to get around notarization.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 31 Aug. 2020
• Earlier this month, for example, the FTC announced the conclusion of its look into Lenovo's conduct of pre-installing man-in-the-middle adware.
  — David Kravets, Ars Technica, 14 Sep. 2017
• Chen and others used those types of ads to gain access to victims’ computers, delete their adware settings, and carry out fake removals of non-existent viruses.
  — Rita Katz, Wired, 30 Oct. 2020
• The apps, which posed as photography and gaming programs, contained a family of adware that was highly disruptive to end users.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 19 Aug. 2019
• Imposter Fortnite apps started spreading adware on Android during the summer of 2018.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 21 July 2019
• That sort of adware makes regular appearances on Android, in part because that platform’s third-party app stores are riddled with bad actors.
  — Wired, 25 Oct. 2019
• At the beginning of March, Google removed 56 applications that appeared benign, but were tainted with adware.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 24 Mar. 2020
• The companies are looking for anything from trojans, adware, and ransomware to banking malware or even phishing campaigns.
  — Wired, 6 Nov. 2019
• When clicked, the updates infected visitors' computers with adware that was detected by just three of 65 antivirus providers.
  — David Kravets, Ars Technica, 16 Oct. 2017
• Shady adware and even banking trojans have managed over the years to repeatedly defy Google's security checks.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 28 Apr. 2020
• Abrams determined that when those updates were clicked, adware would infect a visitor's computer.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• Malwarebytes Mac security researcher Thomas Reed agrees with Wardle's assessment that the adware was not very novel in itself.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 17 Feb. 2021
• The certificates were installed so that adware known as Superfish could inject ads into encrypted webpages.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 28 Nov. 2018
• In another corner of Alphabet's world, hundreds of Chrome extensions were caught siphoning data from people who installed them, part of a sprawling adware scheme.
  — Brian Barrett, Wired, 22 Feb. 2020
• This message is associated with adware that hawks flaky support services.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 May 2017
• There's adware and even ransomware tailored to Macs, and attackers are always looking to circumvent Apple's latest defenses.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 17 Feb. 2021
• The additions include the pushing of an aggressive second-stage adware payload that installs a persistent backdoor on infected Macs.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2022
• The malware exhibits standard adware behavior, like injecting ads into search results.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 31 Aug. 2020
• Basically any application could be used instead of adware.
  — Brian Barrett, WIRED, 26 June 2019
• Persistent pop-up windows shilling products can also indicate your computer has a spyware or adware infection and needs anti-malware software.
  — J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2017
• Last month, Google Play had unwanted apps with nearly 336 million installs, according to security researcher Lukas Stefanko, although most of those apps were considered adware, as opposed to outright malware.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2019
• Beginning with the current version of Microsoft Edge, Microsoft will begin blocking adware, Bitcoin miners, and other unwanted apps that sometimes accompany apps that users download from the web.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 27 Feb. 2020
• In addition, the adware, which used the same password on all the laptops, had access to all information users sent over the internet, including login credentials, Social Security numbers and medical information.
  — Maria Armental, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2017

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