How to Use adware in a Sentence

adware

noun

• In fact, Jamf had flagged a version of the Shlayer adware that was actively exploiting the bug.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 26 Apr. 2021
• Reed also notes that he's started seeing Mac malware like adware evolve to get around notarization.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 31 Aug. 2020
• A day later, the Copyfish extension was updated with the adware.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2017
• For years, the biggest threats were annoying adware and browser hijackers, more of a nuisance than a real danger.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2025
• 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
• This message is associated with adware that hawks flaky support services.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 May 2017
• Abrams determined that when those updates were clicked, adware would infect a visitor's computer.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• The companies are looking for anything from trojans, adware, and ransomware to banking malware or even phishing campaigns.
  — Wired, 6 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Responding to the continuing tidal waves of malware, adware and permission abuse, Google is now clamping down.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Shady adware and even banking trojans have managed over the years to repeatedly defy Google's security checks.
  — Andy Greenberg, Wired, 28 Apr. 2020
• The malware exhibits standard adware behavior, like injecting ads into search results.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 31 Aug. 2020
• 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
• During their sweep, the analysts found 28 Android apps on the Google Play app store containing adware trojans.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 27 July 2022
• In a previous incarnation, Kape was called Crossrider and accused of being a platform for adware.
  — Max Eddy, PC Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
• 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
• At the beginning of March, Google removed 56 applications that appeared benign, but were tainted with adware.
  — Lily Hay Newman, Wired, 24 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Imposter Fortnite apps started spreading adware on Android during the summer of 2018.
  — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 21 July 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Cybercriminals are evolving their tactics, with Mac malware shifting from simple adware to advanced information stealers.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 16 Feb. 2025
• 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
• Some can automatically block malicious websites, ransomware, adware, and phishing attempts and even scan devices on your network to flag potential security issues.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 2 Nov. 2024
• This prevents the tracking and correlation possible with federated identities like Facebook logins, mitigating spyware and adware risks.
  — Alastair Johnson, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• Paying for the premium edition gets you real-time protection, automatic updates, and blocking of adware and potentially unwanted programs, or PUPs.
  — PCMAG, 13 Sep. 2023