Spyware Information: CWS.scagent
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: 30,208 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 877 this month: 0
- Author: CoolWebSearch.com
- Appeared: 2/15/2005
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- Method of infection: CWS.scagent can be installed by other CWS variants or via ActiveX drive-by download.
- Security issues: CWS.scagent can download and install other spyware from its controlling servers, 195.225.176.3 and 195.225.177.14.
- Stability issues: CWS.scagent has a slow memory leak and may cause system instability if the system is left powered on for a long time.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,650
- Detections this Month: 797
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