Spyware Information: CWS.InetDoor
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: 23,552 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 151 this month: 0
- Author: CoolWebSearch
- Others by this author: CWS.IEFeats, CWS.about:blank, CWS
- Appeared: 1/14/2005
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- Method of infection: CWS.InetDoor can be installed via ActiveX drive-by download or by a spyware installer.
- Advertising: CWS.InetDoor hijacks searches and redirects them to other search sites. Its controlling server is crdrcr.com, and at the time of this writing it was targetted at findtop.net, redtr.com, and find-it-easy.org.
- Stability issues: CWS.InetDoor embeds itself as a dependency to programs that are already set to run when Windows boots, so it is difficult to remove.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,651
- Detections this Month: 798
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