Spyware Information: Aureate/Radiate
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: 590,848 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 482 this month: 0
- Author: Aureate
- Appeared: Variants from March, 2002 to February, 2004
Research
- Method of infection: Aureate/Radiate is silently installed some some ad-supported programs.
- Advertising: Aureate/Radiate creates popup advertising while Internet Explorer is open.
- Browser degradation: Aureate/Radiate installs itself as a Browser Helper Object (BHO). It monitors your web-surfing habits, and may slow Internet Explorer.
- Privacy issues: Aureate/Radiate monitors your web-surfing habits and reports that information to its controlling servers. It also gathers personally identifiable information from your computer and reports that data.
- Privacy policy: None found.
- Stability issues: Aureate/Radiate installs itself as a service and hides DLL files in different locations on the computer. It may cause significant system instability.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,651
- Detections this Month: 798
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