Spyware Information: DSSAgent
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: 1,152,000 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 4,115 this month: 1
- Author: Brøderbund
- Appeared: November, 2000
Research
- Method of infection: DSSAgent is silently installed with many Brøderbund products.
- Advertising: DSSAgent creates splash screens and popups for new Brøderbund products.
- Browser degradation: DSSAgent can send tens of thousands of DNS requests within a half an hour, significantly slowing network connectivity.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,656
- Detections this Month: 803
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