Cheetah go pop... and pop.. and pop again. (Grr!)
I have a perhaps skewed view about computer viruses. On the one hand, they *are* malicious code: I will never deny that there are very, very few viruses whose purpose in its transmission is something
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That's getting pretty nasty.
Been thinking about some of the other comments. I suppose the real difference in approach between malware and adware is this:
Virii generally try to fool you into letting it in by making you interested in it (under false pretenses) and wanting to click the link/open the file/what have you. After that it either goes on to do acts of impersonal vandalism, or hides from sight, so that you don't notice it and it can do its own thing (bots).
Adware lives and breathes by making sure it's got your full attention. The attitude seems to be the polar opposite of the above. It assumes you would have to be interested in whatever banality it comes up with, ignoring what your desires may be. I guess it is the imposition of someone else's desires onto your own that generates as least some of the slimyness.
But it all comes down to attitude, and it seems like on-line advertising has a lot of problems with that.
...You know, there *are* TV ads that are so cleverly done that people remember them fondly years later. I don't think I've ever seen an ad on the internet that shows any sign of that kind of appeal to the sensibilities or inventiveness.
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