Spyware Information: Bookmarker.F
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: 34,304 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 1,611 this month: 1
- Author: Unknown
- Appeared: 2/3/2005
Research
- Method of infection: Bookmarker.F must be manually installed. It is usually installed by spyware downloaders.
Bookmarker.F might be related to CWS.about:blank.
- Advertising: Bookmarker.F will place a large number of URLs, mostly pornographic, in the "Favorites" folder.
- Browser degradation: Bookmarker.F sets Internet Explorer's homepage to "about:blank". It also modifies the hosts file to prevent access to the site "auto.search.msn.com".
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,651
- Detections this Month: 798
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