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Missleading title? I think it could be classfied as crapware but malware?

For many people changing the searchengine is not a change they can revert themselves. Neither is having less space because of an additional toolbar. Both changes hurt them. Malware.

yes, but you can uninstall crapware via the normal ways - malware needs to be removed with special tools.

If it's malicious, that is, changes things without express consent, then it's malware. No debate. End of story. Malware is a parasite.

Crapware is something that's installed and shows up on your desktop, may even start automatically and produce pop-ups all the time, but doesn't alter the behavior of other applications. It's just junk, but it's not inherently detrimental or damaging. Crapware applications are barnacles.

Is malware crapware?

Bad logic.

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