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Adware: Understanding Their Behavior and Operation

Adware is unwanted software designed to throw advertisements on your screen. Watch Skylar Simmons explain more.

In this video, you will learn more about Adware. Adware is unwanted software designed to throw advertisements on your screen.

Although, in most cases, it is more annoying than harmful, the real issue is that it does generate money for its creators by directing online traffic away from legitimate advertisers. Adware is often a “gateway malware” for other, more serious threats.

Over to you: What do you understand under the term “gateway malware”? Share your thoughts below.

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