Spyware Information: Spy Mail
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: 216,244 bytes
- Threat level: High (more info...)
- Detections: 2 this month: 0
- Author: InternetSafetySoftware.com, Inc.
- Others by this author: WatchMyPC Remote, KeyThief KeyLogger, KidControl, IAmBigBrother
- Appeared: 1/2005
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- Method of infection: This program must be deliberately installed by someone with access to the infected computer.
- Privacy issues: Spy Mail records all incoming and outgoing Outlook Express e-mail messages. It will silently reveal logged information to others without permission.
- Security issues: Spy Mail will retain any sensitive information transmitted to or from the infected computer via e-mail, such as passwords or credit card numbers.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,657
- Detections this Month: 804
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