To their credit, MalwareBytes is offering a free tool that's useful for manual scans — it even picks up and detects
much of the adware other programs install — and encouraging you to pay for a more full - featured product.
Not exact matches
We just showed off some
of the annoying
adware, but
much of the bundled crapware is pretty lousy stuff as well, and almost every single crapware bundler that we found, and almost every single
adware ad tried to get us to install MacKeeper.
Much of the nastiest
adware arrives the same way it does on Windows, via junkware - packed installers from application - downloading sites like download.com or via shady advertisements that push you to an unofficial, tainted installer.
And no matter how
much you try to clean things up yourself, there are going to be traces
of stuff left over — and in many cases, there is just more
adware waiting to take the place
of the
adware that you just removed.
There are a host
of other promised features, but they're not actually there — placed, tantalisingly, on an interface which very
much shouts «
adware» more than it does «adaware».