Spyware Information: Novasoft Spyware Remover
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: 109,638 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 2,313 this month: 0
- Author: Novasoft, Inc.
- Appeared: 9/14/2004
Research
- Method of infection: Downloadable from trial software and shareware sites.
- Advertising: This program claims to be a spyware remover, but it is actually adware. Some users report that it will claim a computer is infected when it is not.
- Privacy issues: None known.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,636
- Detections this Month: 783


