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What does it mean to authorize something that might be adware?

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please explain my computer knowledge is very limited

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Could be adware/malware/virus!

Dont worry!

Download and run a scan with

1. Avast Home (free) http://avats.com/eng/download-avast-home...

2. Spybot Search & Destroy http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirro...

Hope this helps!
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That is to (un)knowingly give a program permission to do certain things that it should have no business doing. And adware is a type of software that bombards you with advertisements.
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please delete it

it is just trouble
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At best, it wants to install a tracking Cookie, at worse...

ASAP run the following FREE programs--both programs:

LavaSoft offers AdAware 2008, and SpyBot Search & Destroy
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DONT DO THAT

its spyware and / or trojan infected
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The person above me is wrong. It means that it is an executable file that could possibly be a virus. Only authorize it if it is from a source that you trust.
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