Spyware Information: AtomWire
This application is a downloader. Downloaders get other programs from the Internet and install them on your computer. Although there are legitimate uses for downloaders, those that persist on your computer after an installation is finished (or those that you don't recognize) could be used to install spyware, viruses, or other malicious software.
Downloaders have the advantage (for a malicious software writer) that they are not viruses themselves, so they may not be recognized by anti-virus software. This gives the virus a peephole into the computer through which it can travel once the downloader is in place.
- Size: 607,232 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 6,920 this month: 0
- Author: AtomWire Media Corp
- Appeared: November, 2002
Research
- Method of infection: Downloadable from C|Net's Download.com, and probably other Internet software sites. At the time of writing, AtomWire's own site was not available.
- Security issues: Because AtomWire is a Gnutella-based client, it is constantly sending information about your shared files (and the shared files themselves) to whoever requests them on the Internet. You are not guaranteed that AtomWire prevents non-shared files from being sent, or that there is no method of exploit that could get the product to send protected information or even execute arbitrary code (buffer overflow).
- Stability issues: Many have reported that AtomWire crashes when it starts.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,649
- Detections this Month: 796
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