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Note: More than 1 million Android smartphone users unknowingly downloaded adware in the last year, says Lookout study.
Adware is running rampant across the Android landscape, according to security firm Lookout. It says that as many as 6.5% of all free apps in the Google Play Store contain Adware. That's just under 50,000 apps. With so many apps containing adware, it is no surprise that more than one million U.S. Android users have unwittingly downloaded the stuff over the course of the last year.
As Lookout defines it, Adware is an app that "displays advertising outside of the normal app experience, harvests unusual personally identifiable information, or performs...