Spyware Information: Contextual Toolbar
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: 546,889 bytes
- Threat level: High (more info...)
- Detections: 13 this month: 0
- Author: Engage Marketing LLC
- Others by this author: Tut's Revenge, AdwareFinder, Engage Sidebar
- Appeared: 6/2006
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- Method of infection: Contextual Toolbar must be manually installed.
- Advertising: Contextual Toolbar displays related advertising links when search queries are performed.
- Privacy issues: Contextual Toolbar transmits search queries and IP addresses to its maker.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,651
- Detections this Month: 798
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