Spyware Information: Lop.com/Toolbar
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: 10,892,288 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 777 this month: 0
- Author: C2 Media Ltd
- Appeared: Variants from June, 2002 to February, 2004
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- Method of infection: Lop.com's toolbar can be installed by ActiveX or direct download from many sites, often through redirecting pop-up ads. The toolbar is often called something misleading, like "FreeMP3.exe","free_sex_viewer.exe" and "free_plugin.exe"
- Advertising: The toolbar changes your homepage and search page to point to sites affiliated with lop.com Shortcut icons are added to the desktop and to your Favorites menu. The toolbar also may cause pop up advertisements to appear when your computer starts.
- Browser degradation: Likely to slow performance of Internet Explorer.
- Stability issues: Running the software may cause many dial-up connection requests to appear if you use a modem to connect to the Internet and are not connected. Windows can hang temporarily for a few minutes when this happens.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,657
- Detections this Month: 804
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