Spyware Information: Eicar
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: 68 bytes
- Threat level: Low (more info...)
- Detections: 93 this month: 0
- Author: Eicar.org
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- Method of infection: Eicar is a fake virus used for Anti-Virus testing. Eicar simply exists to provide a safe file for Anti-Virus vendors to test and demo with. Eicar is not dangerous at all and will NOT harm your computer.
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- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,650
- Detections this Month: 797
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