Spyware Information: GURL Watcher
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: 456,869 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 0 this month: 0
- Author: QUICOMM
- Appeared: 5/29/2002
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- Method of infection: This software must be deliberately installed by someone with access to the affected machine.
- Privacy issues: GURL Watcher records the URLs of any web sites visited from an infected computer. Logging web browsing history has the potential to reveal sensitive information.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,651
- Detections this Month: 798
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