ZeroPopUpBar
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: An Internet Explorer toolbar with a pop-up advert-blocking feature, which also hijacks homepage and search settings to znext.com every time IE is started. ZeroPopUpBar, to distinguish it from the earlier standalone commercial popup-killer of the same name, by the same author. Note there is no connection to the similarly-named "ZeroPopup" by "Tooto Technologies". ZeroPopUpBar is distributed by viral marketing: some versions, when installed, send an endorsement purporting to be from you to everyone in your e-mail address book. ZeroPopUpBar is also installed by ActiveX drive-by-download on the search bar pointed to by some variants of the TinyBar parasite (also by the same author).
Alias: None
Signatures: None Listed
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