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2. Adware - Wikipedia

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   Adware, often called advertising-supported software by its developers, is software that generates revenue for its developer by automatically generating online advertisements in the user interface of the software or on a screen presented to the user during the installation process. The software may generate two types of revenue: one is for the ...

3. Direct Revenue - Wikipedia

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   Direct Revenue was a New York City company which distributed software (a downloadable adware client) that displays pop-up advertising on web browsers. It was founded in 2002 and funded by Insight Venture Partners, [1] known for creating adware programs. Direct Revenue included Soho Digital and Soho Digital International.

4. Malvertising - Wikipedia

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   Malvertising. Malvertising (a portmanteau of "malicious software (malware) advertising") is the use of online advertising to spread malware. [1] It typically involves injecting malicious or malware-laden advertisements into legitimate online advertising networks and webpages. [2] Because advertising content can be inserted into high-profile and ...

5. Inappropriate advertising on AOL

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   The third suggestion is optional, and is intended only to help supply meaningful malware-related information to AOL Information Security. 1. Scan your computer for viruses and malware. 2. Run the Microsoft Update Utility. 3. Perform an optional AOL Security Check. Scan your computer for viruses and malware. Note: Please check to see that your ...

6. Superfish - Wikipedia

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   Superfish. Superfish was an advertising company that developed various advertising-supported software products based on a visual search engine. The company was based in Palo Alto, California. [1] It was founded in Israel in 2006 [2] and has been regarded as part of the country's "Download Valley" cluster of adware companies. [3]

7. Advertising, Analytics, and Privacy. - AOL

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   Through the ONE by AOL advertising services, we provide ads on our websites and apps, as well as on other companies' websites and apps. Some of the ads we show you are based on the content of the page or app you're viewing. These kinds of ads are sometimes called "contextual ads." Other ads we show you may be based on information we have ...