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F-Secure Spyware Information Pages: Crackspider
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Summary
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| Crackspider is a spyware distributed and bundled with pirated software from websites. The spyware hijacks Internet Explorer searches, and adds shortcuts to affiliate websites onto the user's Favorites folder. |
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Detailed Description
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Crackspider hijacks failed DNS searches and regular address bar searches, for Internet Explorer, to its own webpage. Crackspider adds an icon to Internet Explorer's default toolbar that goes to Crackspider's website.
Crackspider also distributes a toolbar with similar links and search functionality.
Crackspider links to websites with illegal content, mixed with malicious content, such as viruses, trojans and spyware. |
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F-Secure Corporation |
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Last Modified: January 01, 2006
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