Spyware Information: CnsMin
This is a hijacker application. Hijackers take control of your web browser's settings, and usually change your homepage, search page or other default pages to point to web sites owned by the hijacker. Since the hijackers can make money based on the number of visits to their web sites, they benefit from forcing you to view their web sites each time your web browser opens.
Hijackers don't normally damage your computer or steal your personal information.
- Size: 125,440 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 1,790 this month: 0
- Author: Inter China Network Software Co. Ltd
- Appeared: 9/16/2004
Research
- Method of infection: CnsMin can be downloaded from the website www.3721.com
- Advertising: CnsMin attempts to replace search text with Chinese characters and redirects browsers to a Chinese search page. Also creates persistent popups.
- Browser degradation: CnsMin causes serious instability in English versions of Windows and Internet Explorer.
- Privacy issues: CnsMin can transmit information collected on an affected computer to its controlling server.
- Stability issues: CnsMin causes serious instability in English versions of Windows.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,656
- Detections this Month: 803
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