This particular app can read sensitive information from websites such as passwords, telephone numbers, and credit card details. For example, addresses of visited pages, entered search queries, IP addresses, geolocations, and other browsing data. These often conceal content of visited pages and, if clicked, open untrusted pages or cause download/installations of unwanted apps by executing certain scripts.Īdware often gathers information relating to users' browsing habits. Therefore, InnovativeShare and other, similar apps are classified as potentially unwanted applications (PUAs).Īdware-type applications usually serve advertisements in the form of banners, coupons, surveys, pop-ups, etc. Generally, users download and install adware unintentionally.
The InnovativeShare application is supposedly designed to improve the browsing experience, however, it is categorized as adware and displays intrusive advertisements.