Look2Me
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: Look2Me monitors the web sites you visit and sends the log to the vendor's server. Look2Me will also open pop-up windows. Look2Me is implemented as a shell extension, which makes it tightly coupled with Explorer. If you try to remove Look2Me while Explorer is running, Look2Me will notice this and reinstall itself, which makes it hard to remove. The trick is to shut down Explorer before deleting the registry entries associated with spyware, reboot, and then delete the .dll file. It is also possible to remove Look2Me by booting up on start-up disks and delete the .dll file. Look2Me's signs of infection range from pop-up windows, the msg-ish dlls in System directory, ICMP messages coming from www.look2me.com or your firewall warning about connections to www.look2me.com. Look2Me runs inside Windows Explorer not making any appearance in the Task Manager, neither in the Application List nor in the Process list. Look2Me might also connect to the Internet without your firewall warning you about it.
Alias: None
Signatures: None Listed
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