Spyware Information: SAHAgent
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: 1,160,192 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 2,828 this month: 0
- Author: Belcaro Group Inc.
- Appeared: Variants from September, 2003 to February, 2004
Research
- Method of infection: Comes with Grokster, iMesh and Favoriteman, as well as others.
- Advertising: This program downloads advertisements from "shopathomeselect.com" and displays them as popups.
- Privacy issues: If you visit sites that are affiliated with this software, the author's servers record your movements and can put together a profile of you.
- Privacy policy: Online at http://www.shopathomeselect.com/privacy.asp
- Security issues: The update feature downloads and executes code, which is not guaranteed to be safe.
- Stability issues: May slow web-enabled applications, particularly when accessing its servers.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,638
- Detections this Month: 785
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