Lenovo's security debacle reveals blurred boundary between adware and malware
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 - 10:00
in Mathematics & Economics
A widely disliked habit of PC vendors is their bundling of all manner of unwanted software into brand new computers – demo software, games, or part-functional trials. Faced with shrinking margins vendors have treated this as an alternative income stream, going so far as to include adware that generates revenue through monitoring users' surfing habits, for example.