What is the difference between spyware, adware and virus?
Viruses are programs installed onto computers without people knowing it while spyware and adware are programs chosen by people, most of the time undeliberately. It is true that people don’t give their consent to have spyware or adware installed, but the apparition of this malicious software onto their Pc’s is a result of their misinformation. If you agree to have a program installed without reading the license, this means you agree to have spyware on your computer. Adware doesn’t behave like a virus (orworm): they don’t spread themselves using your address book, they don’t actually damage your computer they just slow down its performance.
