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ClickTheButton Adware Information
| Name: |
ClickTheButton |
| 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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ClickTheButton detects when you are visitng a known shopping site and provides sponsored links to competitor sites.
ClickTheButton is described as a price comparison service. It detects when you are visitng a known shopping site and provides sponsored links to competitor sites. It runs as a process on startup, ctbclick.exe and installs a number of extra DLLs.
ClickTheButton is currently being silently installed with other applications such as KaZaA.
The FavoriteMan spyware threat has also installed it with ClickTheButton.
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| 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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