Spyware Information: DyFuCA
This is a Browser Helper Object (BHO). BHO's connect to Internet Explorer while it's running, and share information. BHO's were originally designed to allow Internet Explorer to handle new types of data and to offer new features not originally designed into the product (like search toolbars, for example). But because BHO's have access to all the information about the web sites that you visit (and because BHO's run on your computer and could potentially do anything they want), they have been used by advertising companies and others to track you online.
- Size: Unknown
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 28,330 this month: 0
- Author: Avenue Media
- Appeared: March, 2004
Research
- Method of infection: Comes with some P2P file sharing programs, including Kazaa and iMesh.
- Advertising: Variants are known to create popup ads.
- Browser degradation: As a BHO, it will perform some calculations during every page and image load, slowing down Internet Explorer.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,649
- Detections this Month: 796
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