Spyware Information: Melkosoft
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: 560,128 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 13,634 this month: 8
- Author: Melkosoft
- Appeared: 11/28/2004
Research
- Method of infection: Not much is known about Melkosoft. It appears to be closely related to CoolWebSearch (CWS).
- Stability issues: This software is likely to replicate itself many times across your computer, using random file names. The many files it creates often reside in memory, causing significant slowdown and potentially resulting in decreased stability.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,650
- Detections this Month: 797
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