Some of you may have heard of Page Rage, right? If you haven't, to put in simple terms, it allows you to customize the skin for our Facebook profile BUT people who do not have Page Rage cannot see the customization.
Those programs similar to Page Rage, Drop Down Deals, and SweetIM should be considered adware.
Page Rage, as well as many other programs created by its developer;plus similar software, uses ads to stay free. However, these ads are intrusive, and the program itself is hard to remove.
The ads from Page Rage can block or move Facebook ads to the bottom of the page, which is interfering with Facebook's ability to earn money. Page Rage ads are also excessive, appearing on all over your browser, and the sites on which the ads are on do not receive any commission.
I had installed Drop Down Deals for an offer on Gifthulk, and it was a lot of work to remove the program and undo the changes it did to my browser. I had uninstalled it since, but a year afterwards, I had installed SUPERAntiSpyware (long story as to why) and ran a scan, and SUPERAntiSpyware came up with Drop Down Deals..meaning a portion of it was still on my computer.
Even though security suites like McAfee does not call these programs malware, they can still be adware...
~A Bored Jeff~
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