Spyware Information: NetRatings Premeter
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: 2,769,920 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 2,509 this month: 1
- Author: Nielsen//Netratings
- Appeared: February, 2003
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- Method of infection: NetRatings is bundled with Grokster.
- Privacy issues: NetRatings automatically monitors your web-surfing habits and sends the information back to its controlling servers.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,657
- Detections this Month: 804
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