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The article reports on lawsuit related to bloatware, or unwanted software, won by antivirus software firm Avira GmbH, as of July 2015. It states that Avira has been warning its users regarding the said 'potentially unwanted' applications bundled with its software installed from download site Freemium.com and mentions that Freemium violated the code of conduct of Avira. It notes that a German court has ruled in support of Avira allowing the firm to label the unwanted programs.

The article focuses on the "Mobile Threats Around the World" survey which reveals the popularity of Trojan horses in Germany and the predomination of adware in India. It states that the Trojan horse programs contain a third of all malware in Germany, however only 13 percent of encountered threats was noted for India and barely one percent in Japan. It adds that a user has a 0.53 percent chance to encounter a Trojan horse program and 0.22 percent chance to encounter a chargeware program.