Spyware Information: OTX Research
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: 83,632 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 220 this month: 0
- Author: OTX Research
- Appeared: 2/24/2005
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- Method of infection: OTX Research cna be installed via drive-by download.
- Privacy issues: OTX Research monitors the effectiveness of advertisements on your computer. It watches what advertisements you click and reports this data to its controlling servers.
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- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,646
- Detections this Month: 793
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