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Everything about Adware
Software with, often unwanted, adverts
Adware, often called advertising-supported software by its developers, is software that generates revenue by automatically displaying online advertisements in the user interface or on a screen presented during the installation process. In some cases, it can track online behavior to display personalized ads. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: AdwareA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: An Empirical Study on Detection of Android Adware Using Machine Learning TechniquesInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: شرح ادوارThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: AdStop: Efficient flow-based mobile adware detection using machine learningCited 27 times
- Go sideways: SpywareA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Potentially unwanted programA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A software application that includes advertisements, which are displayed while the software is running. Developers use adware as a source of income and to keep the costs of the software down (usually making it free). Some adware programs can include spyware.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
AdStop: Efficient flow-based mobile adware detection using machine learning
An analysis of Android adware
MadDroid: malicious adware detection in Android using deep learning
Commercial software, adware, and consumer privacy
Spyware & Adware: the Risks facing Businesses
Spyware and Adware: How Do Internet Users Defend Themselves?
Pandora’s Box: spyware, adware, autoexecution, and NGSCB
Android Adware Detection Using Machine Learning
🆕 Influential since 2022
An Empirical Study on Detection of Android Adware Using Machine Learning Techniques
Android Adware Detection using Soot and CFG
Multimodal and Explainable Android Adware Classification Techniques
Enhanced android adware detection using optimized catboost and sparse autoencoder
Analysis of Public Awareness of Cybercrime in The Form of Adware
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕شرح ادوارʻAbd al-Qādir ibn Ghaybī Ḥāfiẓ Marāghī · 1991
Essential Computer SecurityTony Bradley · 2006
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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