About Adware

What Is Adware?

Adware is a program that displays ads to the user. The ads can be pop-up screens so called interstitial ads, ordinary banners within the program, ads in the active browser windows frame as the ads Web3000 where displaying or of any other type of ads displayed to for the user. The adware programs are generally two programs, one that does some thing useful and one that displays the ads.

Why Use Adware?

The key for the users is to be able to use the programs free-of-charge and the key to. The key for the developers is to get paid for all the free programs. For example last year we made more than twice the money of the adware than on the registrations. Not that the registration rates where low in any kind more the fact that the ads generated a lot of money. Unfortunately the ad revenue has gone down the months.

Adware developers and we the software developers have to keep a balance between a fair revenue and not showing to much ads. To do what Web3000 did wasn't a good idea, at the end Web3000 bombarded the users with ads forcing many to uninstall immediately and that gave us a very bad feedback. 180Solutions model is far better. They have no spyware included and the ad looks like the rest of the pop-up ads you see when you are browsing.

How To Uninstall the Adware

Generally you uninstall the adware from the Control Panel. In some cases like with Web3000 you need to uninstall all programs that came with Web3000. With programs like n-CASE from 180Solutions and EasyInstall from RedV Network you can uninstall the adware only. The program that came with the adware may however stop working when you do so.

Adware Verses Spyware

Adware isn't the same as spyware. A spyware program is a program that gathers personal information of how you serf. A program that gathers information on how you serf but don't connect the information of any personal data is not a spyware. In this case the part that gathers the information can't see who is surfing where and when. The can only see how many are visiting certain sites and what type of sites. The way 180Solutions gathers the information is by connecting the data to a number that is unique to every user. No personal data is connected to this number. With n-CASE and EasyInstall's network we even have the option to set the pop-up rate for the ads shown. Some ads shown may however ask you for information. That could be from advertisers that are using the network that are displaying the ads for you. If you don't like spyware, then don't reply to these ads, just ignore them.

Rosoft Limited Editions

The limited program comes with an adware program. An adware program is a program that displays ads on your PC. At the moment I have a contract with 180Solutions that supports me with a program called n-CASE and RedV Network that provides the program EasyInstall or to be more precise EasyInstall provides you with our programs. You first download a special version of the EasyInstall program that when it has been downloaded starts the download of our install file. This will help you if your Internet connection goes down. EasyInstall handles this a neat way.

It is the adware program that makes it possible for you to try the limited edition of Rosoft CD Extractor for as many as 30 trials. My goal is to let the limited editions be unlimited in use as long as you have the adware installed. Unfortunately the Internet ad market has been low the last months and many adware companies have gone under including my former partner Web3000. I lost about US$5,000 on this bankruptcy. With 180Solutions things are begging to be normal again and I have high hopes for RedV Network and its program EasyInstall.

A Major Income Source

The income from the adware is as much as from the registrations and some times even more. Last year I made more than $40,000 on the adware. I think the adware is perfect for small software manufactures as Rosoft Engineering. A good thing with adware is that Rosoft Engineering gets paid while you users are able to use the programs free-of-charge as long as the adware is installed.