Adware:Adware (or spyware) is a small program that is designed to show advertisements (in various form and degrees of intrusiveness) on your computer. It often reports personal information back to its owners. As a result your sense of privacy can be violated.
Winupie is an adware application that shows commercial pop-up advertisements. It also can download from the Internet and execute arbitrary code. Winupie is distributed through ActiveX drive-by downloads and therefore can get into the computer while visiting some insecure web sites. The threat runs on every Windows startup.