Spyware Information: ClearSearch
This is a hijacker application. Hijackers take control of your web browser's settings, and usually change your homepage, search page or other default pages to point to web sites owned by the hijacker. Since the hijackers can make money based on the number of visits to their web sites, they benefit from forcing you to view their web sites each time your web browser opens.
Hijackers don't normally damage your computer or steal your personal information.
- Size: 1,963,008 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 22,782 this month: 6
- Author: Clear Search, Inc.
- Appeared: July, 2003
Research
- Advertising: Yes, in the form of redirection to certain sites when searching using the address bar.
- Browser degradation: Likely to slow performance of Internet Explorer.
- Privacy issues: ClearSearch periodically contacts www.clrsch.com to report tracking information about you.
- Privacy policy: Available online here.
- Security issues: ClearSearch's automatic update feature downloads and runs arbitrary and potentially unsafe code on your computer.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,657
- Detections this Month: 804
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