Spyware Information: eBates Money Maker
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: 3,749,621 bytes
- Threat level: High (more info...)
- Detections: 18,003 this month: 1
- Author: eBates
- Appeared: December, 2002
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- Method of infection: It is distributed with many file sharing clients, such as Grokster.
- Advertising: This application will frequently serve pop-up advertising to your screen.
- Browser degradation: In addition to the ads, which will reduce web surfing usability, the program will also sometimes redirect your browser under the guise of saving you money.
- Privacy issues: The company keeps records of your personal information and web surfing habits.
- Privacy policy: The privacy policy for this application is available at: http://www.ebates.com/privacy.jsp
- Security issues: This program will disable or uninstall competitve products, as well as some anti-spyware software.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,650
- Detections this Month: 797
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