Emsisoft Malware-Info

Name: Adware.Win32.Adware.Semtool

Description:

Adware (or Spyware) defines a specific group of Trojans, which tries to spy your privacy or annoy you with advertisings. Adware usually doesn't destroy or manipulate files on your computer. Adware may collect your personal or your computer's information in some cases.

Emsisoft currently detects the following types of Adware:

Adware or Ad Supported Software

Adware describes usually pieces of Software which are included or bundled with programs as plugins to show ads. But besides showing harmless ads, they may collect user relevant information with or without asking the user. Most adwares send the collected user information to a central server to maximize the advertising effect. Some of them are using cookies to trace the visited websites of the user.

HiJacker

HiJackers are pieces of software which hijack other programs to use their rights or change their behaviour. HiJackers manipulate e.g. the browser's search- and home-page defaults or redirect specific website request to other webservers. Some HiJackers manipulate websites you are visiting.

PopUp Trojans

PopUp Trojans are Spyware programs which infiltrate your system and annoy you with popup advertisting windows and messages.

Spyware

Spyware collects information which is used to create a user profile. This profile can but need not include personal information. In many cases the user profile only includes information about the computer system, like:

- Operating System details
- Information about other installed programs
- Hardware information like CPU, Memory, Video and Sound Card details
- Internet connection details
- Hardware drivers information
- Other collected information

This can be more or less anonymously, but the software may send this information hidden without the user's knowledge to a server which collects it.

 

Read more about Adware and Spyware in our knowledgebase article: What is Spyware.. really?

Removal instructions for Adware Adware Semtool:

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