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BrowserAcclerator Adware Information
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BrowserAcclerator |
| Category: |
Adware |
| Advice: |
Remove |
| Risk: |
Elevated Risk
Elevated threats are usually threats that fall into the range of adware in which data about a user's habits are tracked and sent back to a server for analysis without your consent or knowledge. |
| Description:
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Collects potential personal information and can associate it with your browsing and searching habits.
BrowserAcclerator can associate your searching and browsing habits with your personal information. Based on the manner in which the software is integrated into Internet Explorer, this could pose a privacy risk for your information.
From the EULA: "PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: EM24'S BROWSER ACCELERATOR GATHERS AND HOUSES INFORMATION ABOUT THE WEB PAGES YOUR BROWSER VIEWS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: THE URL THAT YOUR BROWSER VISITS, THE DURATION OF TIME SPENT AT EACH URL, THE IP ADDRESS THAT YOUR INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER HAS PROVIDED FOR YOU, AND ANY UNSECURE INFORMATION YOU ENTER ON THE WEB PAGE. EM24 DOES NOT ENDEAVOR TO EVALUATE THE DATA IT GATHERS IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE IDENTITY OF THE BROWSER ACCELERATOR USER, WHICH MAY CONTAIN PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION SUCH AS YOUR IP ADDRESS, UNSECURE ACCOUNT NUMBERS OR CREDIT CARD NUMBERS. EM24 ONLY USES THE DATA TO DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC TO A PARTICULAR WEB PAGE AND TO GENERATE ONE-CLICK SITE DETAIL™ REPORTS FOR OUR USERS. ALL PERSONALLY INDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION THAT IS INADVERTENTLY COLLECTED IS PURGED AND NEVER PERMANENTLY STORED IN OUR DATABASE. BROWSER ACCELERATOR CREATES AGGREGATED DATA ABOUT GROUPS OF ITS USERS IN ORDER TO ANALYZE USAGE TRENDS AND IMPROVE OUR SERVICES TO YOU. WE MAY PROVIDE INFORMATION GATHERED BY OUR BROWSER ACCELERATOR WEB SITE IN AN AGGREGATE FORM TO THIRD PARTIES SUCH AS OUR AFFILIATED SITES RANKING.COM AND TRAFFICRANKING.COM. FOR EXAMPLE, WE MAY ADVISE SPONSORS OF USAGE TRENDS IN ORDER FOR THEM TO BROADLY JUDGE THE VALUE OF THE SERVICE FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES OR ORGANIZATION MEMBERS. NO PERSONALY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WILL BE SHARED WITH THESE THIRD PARTIES.
IT IS IN YOUR BEST INTEREST TO READ THE ABOVE TERMS OF USE AND ACCOMPANYING LICENSING AGREEMENT VERY CAREFULLY PRIOR TO DOWNLOADING AND USING THE BROWSER ACCELERATOR SOFTWARE. ONCE YOU DOWNLOAD THE BROWSER ACCELERATOR SOFTWARE, YOU WILL BE OBLIGATED BY THESE TERMS AND THE ACCOMPANYING LICENSING AGREEMENT."
From the Privacy Policy: "We employ various methods for collecting information. To begin with, we use “cookies” that are needed to compile aggregate non-personally identifiable information about the users of our tool bar service. Personally identifiable information consists of information that is unique to you, such as credit card numbers, bank accounts, social security numbers, home address, email address and the like. This is the type of information that most people consider private and deem the most important to protect from unauthorized access.
Non-personally identifiable information most often consists of things such as your search preferences, the types of products you have bought, how many times you have visited a particular web site, etc. This type of information is usually associated with a particular computer or IP address but not with a particular person. “Cookies” are pieces of information generated by a Web server and stored in the user's computer, ready for future access. Each time you access our web site; our server finds the relevant cookie on your computer. The information contained within that cookie is then used to customize your experience with our site. The following is a list of the information we collect:
When you download the BROWSER A TOOL, we automatically record information about the web pages that your browser views, including the url that your browser visits, the amount of time you spend at each url, the IP address that your I
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| Signatures:
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process: basetup.exe: MD5 Hash: 181107153b6cf5aac8a.. |
| Type: |
Adware - Adware is generally software that displays advertisements. Some advertisers may covertly install adware on your system and generate a stream of unsolicited advertisements that can clutter your desktop and affect your productivity. The advertisements may also contain pornographic or other material that you might find inappropriate. The extra processing required to track you or to display advertisements can tax your computer and hurt your system performance. |
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