Spyware Information: Paduaism
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: 10,752 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 1,468 this month: 0
- Author: Unknown
- Appeared: 1/13/2005
Research
- Method of infection: Paduaism can be installed via drive-by download from some websites.
- Privacy policy: None.
- Stability issues: It is unclear exactly what Paduaism does. It automatically installs itself and places a large number of registry values in the "RunOnce" and "RunServices" keys pointing to itself.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,650
- Detections this Month: 797
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