Spyware Information: Calling Home
This application is a downloader. Downloaders get other programs from the Internet and install them on your computer. Although there are legitimate uses for downloaders, those that persist on your computer after an installation is finished (or those that you don't recognize) could be used to install spyware, viruses, or other malicious software.
Downloaders have the advantage (for a malicious software writer) that they are not viruses themselves, so they may not be recognized by anti-virus software. This gives the virus a peephole into the computer through which it can travel once the downloader is in place.
- Size: 38,400 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 8,315 this month: 1
- Author: callinghome.biz
- Appeared: 9/14/2004
Research
- Method of infection: Installed by websites that use the tools listed on www.callinghome.biz.
- Advertising: None.
- Browser degradation: None.
- Security issues: This tool is designed to install software on your computer automatically (that is, without your explicit approval), and this type of activity always subjects you to some security risks. Even if the software is intended to be benign, its communication with its controlling server can be intercepted and modified by a hacker, who can then use the system to install malicious code on your computer.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,656
- Detections this Month: 803
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