| Name: |
ClickTheButton |
| Category: |
Cookie |
| Advice: |
Remove |
| 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:
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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: |
Cookie - Cookies are small files that are created by your web browser when you visit sites on the Internet. They can be used to track your visits to certain web sites and can provide companies with information about frequency of visits and other profile information. The user is usually not aware that their surfing habits are being tracked. |
