Spyware Information: PersonalWeb
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: 1,856,973 bytes
- Threat level: High (more info...)
- Detections: 377 this month: 0
- Author: Claria
- Others by this author: Gator eWallet, GAIN, GotSmiley, ScreenScenes, DashBar, Weatherscope, Precision Time, Date Manager, WebSecureAlert
- Appeared: 5/2006
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- Method of infection: PersonalWeb must be manually downloaded and installed.
- Advertising: PersonalWeb delivers targeted banner advertisements by tracking web browsing activity.
- Browser degradation: PersonalWeb tracks web usage through an Internet Explorer plugin, which may affect browser performance.
- Privacy issues: PersonalWeb's tracking component transmits browser history data to Claria, which presents a significant privacy threat.
- Privacy policy: Can be found at http://www.personalweb.com/client/privacy-policy.html
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,651
- Detections this Month: 798
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