Moderate Risk
Moderate threats may profile users online habits or broadcast data back to a server with 'opt-out' permission. In most cases this type of threat is more along the lines of commercial type adware that offer a premium service in exchange for tracking your user online performance.
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Toolbar - An Internet Explorer toolbar is a plug-in to Internet Explorer that installs a toolbar within the web browser. Many legitimate toolbars such as the Google or Yahoo toolbar provide various convenient search features, however, many toolbars also include adware and spyware functionality used to track searching behavior and modify the search results to point to an alternative search engine.
