Whats the difference between adware and spyware?
Tuesday, December 25, 2007 by Praveen
Well this is a common question that raises in the mind of every novice to the internet world.Let me try to explain this in a very simple terms:
To all intents and purposes they should be thought of as the same thing as they both track your movements on the Internet, but I think adware actively sends you advertising pop-ups and redirects you to their sponsors advertising sites, whilst spyware also tracks your movements on the Internet and then sends a report of your surfing habits back to whoever created it - this information could also include your bank details, passwords, credit card numbers etc, so both are damaging and should be removed,to remove them I use ad-aware 2007 from lavasoft, you can download it for free fromwww.download.com hope this helps.
To all intents and purposes they should be thought of as the same thing as they both track your movements on the Internet, but I think adware actively sends you advertising pop-ups and redirects you to their sponsors advertising sites, whilst spyware also tracks your movements on the Internet and then sends a report of your surfing habits back to whoever created it - this information could also include your bank details, passwords, credit card numbers etc, so both are damaging and should be removed,to remove them I use ad-aware 2007 from lavasoft, you can download it for free fromwww.download.com hope this helps.
