adware

The problem is: if one piece of adware is allowed, then there would be another one and in 5 years it will be fully supporting AskToolbar.

Reminder that Microsoft installed adware on Windows 7/8 machines to encourage users to upgrade to Windows 10.

Absolutely, but those ads aren't usually pointing at outright malicious software, just shitty adware like download accelerators or whatever.

Also while it's true that kat.cr is serving adware, it does not do so on the frontpage.

The perspective of this paper probably relates to compromised accounts and information leaks, not adware infections.

We used to call that adware/malware when a company bundled third party software without permission.

Google Code went away, and Sourceforge started packaging adware and spyware with other people's projects.

I mean, besides being possibly loaded with rootkits, spyware and adware?

Between this and the adware scandal, it's like someone slammed the door on an era.

Stuff like taking over old projects and adding adware to them definitely don't help, but even ignoring that SourceForge still feels dead.

I consider it adware because there is no way to get the notification to go away.

I never get spyware/adware, and I don't even have any realtime protection, just regularly drop to safe mode and scan.

Calling it "adware" is a stretch of a largest magnitude.

"How, despite being careful and having Windows Defender, it's almost inevitable to end up with some spyware/adware which is very hard to get rid of." What the heck are you doing with your computer?