does sophos call "naughtyware" malware?

long story so i wont tell it

suffice it to say that as a result of a google search for some tech info i downloaded a large archive of files

all of the files were exe files which are generally useless to me except that sometimes rar archives are stored as exe

so in search of my promised pdf i tried expanding them

no luck

but before doing so i checked for duplicate files

there were a lot of them - with wildly different names

this led me to suspect that these files were mostly malware

so instead of throwing them out i deleted the dupes and kept the files to use as an av test sample

i just ran sophos against these files which found 52 threats in a majority of the files

what intrigues me is one file detected as 

"Troj/AdbPat-A" described as "a Trojan that attempts to subvert and hack Adobe Acrobat 8.1 Professional application."

from this description it sounds like this is some sort of registration cracking program

if so, i'm sure that adobe would consider t malware

but does it actually harm the user's computer

i guess what i'm asking is does sophos only detect software that is harmful to the user or does it act as a net nanny and flag software that it thinks does stuff you shouldn't do?

if not your threat descriptions could use some improvement