List of Known Spyware

Generating pop-ups, damaging and/or slowing computers:

• Bonzi Buddy
• Cydoor
• Gator, made by the Claria Corporation (Advertising, pop ups, privacy violation, significant security risk, partially disables firewalls, some stability issues. Gator has a reputation as difficult to remove once installed.)
• New.net (security risk, stability issues, common cause of inability to connect)
• ShopAtHomeSearch

Hijacking browsers:

• CoolWebSearch - a well-known browser hijacker; some variants have a reputation for damaging the TCP stack when forcibly uninstalled
• Euniverse
• Xupiter

Masquerading as a spyware-remover:

• SpyKiller

Miscellaneous:

• Internet Optimizer (Advertising, fake alert messages, possible privacy violation, security risk)
• MarketScore (Claims to speed up Internet connections: serious privacy violation, loss of Internet connection on some systems)
• CnsMin (Made in China; privacy violation. Preset in many Japanese PCs as JWord!)

Known programs bundling adware

• Kazaa
• Bearshare
• DivX (except for the paid version, and the 'standard' version without the encoder)

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