Spyware Information: EnhanceSearch
This is a Browser Helper Object (BHO). BHO's connect to Internet Explorer while it's running, and share information. BHO's were originally designed to allow Internet Explorer to handle new types of data and to offer new features not originally designed into the product (like search toolbars, for example). But because BHO's have access to all the information about the web sites that you visit (and because BHO's run on your computer and could potentially do anything they want), they have been used by advertising companies and others to track you online.
- Size: 222,278 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 10,418 this month: 0
- Author: enhancemysearch.com
- Appeared: 11/30/2004
Research
- Method of infection: EnhanceSearch can be installed via drive-by download from certain websites.
- Advertising: EnhanceSearch reroutes searches through enhancemysearch.com to display advertisements and sponsored links.
- Browser degradation: EnhanceSearch is likely to cause significant performance degradation in Internet Explorer.
- Privacy issues: EnhanceSearch monitors your web-surfing habits and sends that information to its controlling servers.
- Privacy policy: None available online.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,654
- Detections this Month: 801
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