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Adware and Comparison of computer viruses

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Difference between Adware and Comparison of computer viruses

Adware vs. Comparison of computer viruses

Adware, or advertising-supported software, 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 compilation of a unified list of computer viruses is made difficult because of naming.

Similarities between Adware and Comparison of computer viruses

Adware and Comparison of computer viruses have 6 things in common (in Unionpedia): Antivirus software, Computer virus, Malware, Microsoft Windows, Spyware, Trojan horse (computing).

Antivirus software

Antivirus software, or anti-virus software (abbreviated to AV software), also known as anti-malware, is a computer program used to prevent, detect, and remove malware.

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Computer virus

A computer virus is a type of malicious software program ("malware") that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code.

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Malware

Malware (a portmanteau for malicious software) is any software intentionally designed to cause damage to a computer, server or computer network.

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Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a group of several graphical operating system families, all of which are developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

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Spyware

Spyware is software that aims to gather information about a person or organization sometimes without their knowledge, that may send such information to another entity without the consumer's consent, that asserts control over a device without the consumer's knowledge, or it may send such information to another entity with the consumer's consent, through cookies.

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Trojan horse (computing)

In computing, a Trojan horse, or Trojan, is any malicious computer program which misleads users of its true intent.

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Adware and Comparison of computer viruses Comparison

Adware has 57 relations, while Comparison of computer viruses has 121. As they have in common 6, the Jaccard index is 3.37% = 6 / (57 + 121).

References

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