eScorcher
Category: Cookie
Risk:
Low Risk
* Low risk threats pose a very low risk or no immediate danger to your computer or your privacy, however these types of applications may profile user online habits, but only according to specific privacy policies stated in the applications End-User License. These types of threats generally borderline on being a threat to being a standard application that has a complex license agreement that you knowingly installed.
Description: None
Alias: None
Signatures:
at type: Cookie - Cookies are small files that are created by your web browser when you visit sites on the Internet. They can be used to track your visits to certain web sites and can provide companies with information about frequency of visits and other profile information. The user is usually not aware that their surfing habits are being tracked.
Advice: Remove
Threat risk: Low Risk
Low risk threats pose a very low risk or no immediate danger to your computer or your privacy, however these types of applications may profile user online habits, but only according to specific privacy policies stated in the applications End-User License. These types of threats generally borderline on being a threat to being a standard application that has a complex license agreement that you knowingly installed.
Description: Free anti-virus software that uses advertising through popus. eScorcher collects browsing habits of its users as well.
eScorcher is installed by a drive-by-download.
eScorcher installs a file called supporter5.exe which is Trojan that attempts to download a file from a specific Web site, and then execute it. supporter5.exe is set to run each time Windows starts up
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