> If I make a toolbar that, I dunno, provides human-edited translations of Wikipedia articles that's active when you're on Wikipedia.com, and I monetize that by putting ads on the page, and a user downloaded and installed the app (as opposed to me paying to bundle it with another app) that is not malware.
I agree that in that particular case it wouldn't necessarily qualify as malware, if you've made it clear to the user what you're doing. I would certainly call it adware, though.
And as you suggest, if you snuck it in along with some other application where the user didn't necessarily give clear and well-informed consent to install it, then I would absolutely call that malware.
I agree that in that particular case it wouldn't necessarily qualify as malware, if you've made it clear to the user what you're doing. I would certainly call it adware, though.
And as you suggest, if you snuck it in along with some other application where the user didn't necessarily give clear and well-informed consent to install it, then I would absolutely call that malware.