Spyware Information: BrowserAccel
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: 237,568 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 229 this month: 0
- Author: EMERgency 24, Inc
- Appeared: 11/12/2004
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- Method of infection: Must be manually installed and downloaded. Promises to increase surfing speed.
- Browser degradation: Displays a toolbar in Internet Explorer, and will likely slow down page loads.
- Privacy issues: BrowserAccel tracks your Internet usage and sends reports back to its server.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,656
- Detections this Month: 803
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