Adware Watch

Hot As Hell is a dialer program which phone numbers that are attached to paid pornographic web sites. Hot As Hell may disconnect a user’s computer from their Internet provider and reconnect the user to the Internet using an expensive toll or international phone number which they usually are receiving a cut from. It does not spy on the user, but it may accrue significant long distance phone charges. It may run as a process in the background without you even knowing that it is running. Unfortunately, too many find out about this program running on their computer after receiving their phone bill.

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Cool Web Search (CWS) is a program that has been known to hijack web searches, home pages, and Internet Explorer settings. Examples of possible IE changes are; adding sites to your favorites list without your knowledge and and redirecting your browser to unwanted sites. Recent variants of CoolWebSearch install using malicious HTML applications or security flaws, such as exploits in the HTML Help format and Microsoft Java Virtual machines.

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Exact Searchbar is classified as a toolbar. Exact Searchbar is a commercial toolbar that works in Internet Explorer and displays advertising when searches are made into it.

It often displays pop up boxes when certain words are typed into a search engine or browser. This is more of an annoyance then a major infection.

Unlike most Adware, this program does come with an uninstaller and has to be installed by the user to start working.

This type of Adware can be found in free downloads that you may think are harmless and when you install the free software you thought you were getting, you may also get this toolbar installed as well. Try Webroot Spy Sweeper free for 14 days to see what other types of adware have been installed on your computer.

The ISTbar is a toolbar is used for searching pornographic web sites, and may display pornographic pop ups and also hijack a users homepage and/or searches. Just because your computer may be showing you undesireable pop ups and redirecting your pc to sites that are … “undesirable” for some viewers, it probably isn’t your fault. This program has been known to self install in your system without your knowledge. Make your computer safer for your family with the removal of this adware.

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Gator (GAIN) is an adware program that sometimes displays banner advertisments based on the users web surfing habits. It is not uncommon to find that Gator may be bundled together with file sharing programs, (many of which are free) for example Kazaa. Gator has been known to produce everything from a subtle button ad that is hardly noticable, to pop ups and pop unders, all the way to opening multiple browsers at once to display multiple ads.

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ToolbarCC is known as an invasive toolbar. Unlike friendly toolbars, like Google’s, ToolbarCC does not ask for permission to install or run and will activate every time you open Internet Explorer.

It works by redirecting your browser when you make a search at Google.com to one of their pages. Sometimes a tool bar will appear at the bottom of the screen with a related search enquiry. Try a free scan from Webroot Spy Sweeper.

Firewalls cannot prevent this program from running as they see it as apart of your browser and not as a virus.

Transponder (vx2) is an Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object that monitors requested web pages and any other information the user enters into forms, and may deliver targeted advertisments about the requested information. This piece of adaware, as do many others, carries a name that sounds as if it is part of an operationg system. So if the user stumbles across it, chances are it will not be deleted or uninstalled.

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Begin2Search is installed as an internet explorer toolbar. Once this toolbar is installed, it is possible that your web searches, home page and Internet Explorer settings can be hijacked.

This toolbar also has the ablity to track your internet surfing habits. Once Begin2Search has been installed on your computer, it is also possible that you will end up getting BetterInternet and SafeSurfing which are also adware programs installed on your computer.

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