Spyware Information: WinAntiSpyware
This application is adware. Adware is not normally a threat, but is usually considered a nuisance. It might have been installed by another application. It can pop up advertisements even if you have a popup blocker on your computer. It can monitor your computer usage to generate ads that you are more likely to respond to. Adware can consume processing power and network bandwidth, thus slowing down your computer and interrupting your workflow.
- Size: 7,793,920 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 9,390 this month: 7
- Author: WinSoftware
- Others by this author: WinFixer, WinAntiVirus
- Appeared: 09/05/2005
Research
- Method of infection: WinAntiSpyware has been installed by other malicious applictions and via drive by active-X.
- Advertising: WinAntiSpyware uses false positives to trick the user into believing their computer is infected with a virus. WinAntiSpyware is sometimes installed with real viruses to scare the user into purchasing the full version in order to remove the virus.
- Stability issues: WinAntiSpyware runs as a background process and installs files into the sytem directory. Because it runs as a background process and nests itself into the operating system it may cause stability problems.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,798,871
- Detections this Month: 407
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