Spyware Information: Harvester
This is a "cracking" application. Cracking applications try to defeat the anti-piracy systems in software, CDs, DVDs, and other copy-protected products. Some will edit software to remove the code that prevents illegal copying, or that restricts parts of the software before purchase. Others will pull data from a protected medium, like a DVD, and store the data in a format that is not protected.
Although you may not have anything to do with Harvester and may not be using it to violate copy restrictions, someone else might be storing it on your computer. It could be another user of your computer, or it could even be someone you've never met -- someone who has broken into your computer and stored his tools there to prevent tracing. It is common for hackers to preserve and use computers they have broken into, rather than simply destroying them.
- Size: 1,029,120 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 0 this month: 0
- Author: AGM65 Maverick
- Others by this author: Harvester 2.0, Harvester 1.0, Harvester 2003, Harvester 2.301, Harvester 5.0, Harvester 3.0
- Appeared: Variants from October, 2001 to November, 2003
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,650
- Detections this Month: 797
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