Tutorial 7 facts

Rian M.  Burson
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Fact 1.  Adware is a general category of software that includes advertisements to help pay for the product on which they appear.  Many freeware and shareware programs are sold as adware.
Fact 2.  Spyware works much like adware exept that the user has no control over or knowledge of the ads and the other monitoring features the ads contain.
Fact 3.  The programs you install, especially freeware and shareware programs, might include spyware to track your use of programs and of the internet, or they might collect data about you and distribute that data to a third party.