Spyware Information: SongSpy
This application is spyware. Spyware software generally does not provide any services to you; rather, it is primarily designed to watch you as you use your computer or surf the Internet, and report this information to hackers, advertising companies or other individuals who have placed the spyware on your computer.
Spyware is often bundled with free software. The company which produces the free software gets paid by advertising companies for each computer that becomes "infected" with the spyware. To protect their revenue, the free software companies will sometimes force you to run the advertising spyware to use their free software.
- Size: 1,553,408 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 2,923 this month: 0
- Author: SongSpy Corporation
- Appeared: May, 2002
Research
- Method of infection: SongSpy claims to be a music filesharing program. However, once a computer connects to SongSpy it cannot be disconnected from the network.
- Privacy issues: When a computer is connected to SongSpy the hard drive is open to sharing.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,656
- Detections this Month: 803
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