Spyware Information: BrowserAid.FindIt-Quick
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: 820,224 bytes
- Threat level: High (more info...)
- Detections: 2,985 this month: 0
- Author: Cash Toolbar
- Appeared: Variants from January, 2003 to January, 2004
Research
- Method of infection: The most likely vector of infection is by ActiveX install. Visiting LetsSearch.com, for example, will automatically install it.
FindItQuick can also be downloaded from the author's site.
- Advertising: Opens pop-up advertisements.
- Browser degradation: As a BHO, it will process data every time something happens in Internet Explorer which is likely to slow IE down and increase load times.
- Privacy policy: Online here.
- Security issues: BrowserAidToolbar downloads and installs updates without security protections. You are not guaranteed that this code is safe.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,638
- Detections this Month: 785
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