Spyware Information: EAnthology
This application is spyware. Spyware software generally does not provide any services to you; rather, it is primarily designed to watch you as you use your computer or surf the Internet, and report this information to hackers, advertising companies or other individuals who have placed the spyware on your computer.
Spyware is often bundled with free software. The company which produces the free software gets paid by advertising companies for each computer that becomes "infected" with the spyware. To protect their revenue, the free software companies will sometimes force you to run the advertising spyware to use their free software.
- Size: 17,503,232 bytes
- Threat level: High (more info...)
- Detections: 53,481 this month: 1
- Author: Acceleration Software International Corporation
- Appeared: April, 2001
Research
- Method of infection: EAnthology is distributed primarily with the many "free" tools listed at eAcceleration.com.
- Advertising: Yes (in fact, eAcceleration was sued in January 2004 in California for this advertising). It pops up ads and, more seriously, creates legitimate-looking error messages saying "Virus Detected!" and other similar statements which lead to advertisers.
- Browser degradation: The EAnthology software is very calculation-intensive, and will slow down older computers significantly.
- Stability issues: The load that EAnthology places on older computers can cause instability.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,656
- Detections this Month: 803
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