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Comet Cursor Browser Plug-in Information
| Name: |
Comet Cursor |
| Category: |
Browser Plug-in |
| Alias: |
- Alias: BHO.CheckURL |
| Advice: |
Remove |
| Risk: |
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. |
| Description:
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Comet Cursor is a browser pulg-in which logs web information like cookies, IP addresses etc.
Comet Cursor is a browser extension that gives web sites the power to change the cursor, substituting any image or animation instead of the arrow. Comet Systems receives web log information: cookies, referrer id's, IP addresses and other system information using a unique identifier system. Each time a user clicks on site content that information is stored anonymously.
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| Signatures:
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process: csinstall.exe: MD5 Hash: 44413967417b6c52bf8...
process: fclnk.exe: MD5 Hash: a7dbf413bb6f4ca3de8...
process: comet.exe: MD5 Hash: c7e520c65c3ead5e03d...
process: csinstall.exe: MD5 Hash: 44413967417b6c52bf8...
process: fclnk.exe: MD5 Hash: a7dbf413bb6f4ca3de8...
process: cstray.exe: MD5 Hash: da477db0b4edac5ce6a.. |
| Type: |
Browser Plug-in - Anything (other than a document) not in another category, perhaps because it falls into mulitple categories, such as a tool suite. |
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