Affiliate Marketing Glossary Adware

What Is An Adware?

An Adware is a software, that supports and provides advertisements. These advertisements are the source of revenues for their author.

This Adware software is often downloaded when people download another program and people usually do not realize it. It is automatically included in the installation. An Adware software can be also known as malware or spyware because it collects information about the user and then shows undesired advertisements.