Spyware Detail

HuntBar is a toolbar providing searching features, which is added to every new Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer window.

It also changes your home page and search bar settings to point to HuntBar's servers, and automatically opens this search bar when it detects you using any other search engine.

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See Also

WebSearch Toolbar

Category

Browser Helper Object:  (BHO). A component that Internet Explorer will load whenever it starts, shares IE's memory context, can perform any action on the available windows and modules. A BHO can detect events, create windows to display additional information on a viewed page, monitor messages and actions. Microsoft calls it "a spy we send to infiltrate the browser's land." BHOs are not stopped by personal firewalls, because they are seen by the firewall as your browser itself. Some exploits of this technology search all pages you view in IE and replace banner advertisements with other ads. Some monitor and report on your actions. Some change your home page.

Hijacker:  Any software that resets your browser's settings to point to other sites. Hijacks may reroute your info and address requests through an unseen site, capturing that info. In such hijacks, your browser may behave normally, but be slower.

Spyware:  Any product that employs a user's Internet connection in the background without their knowledge, and gathers/transmits info on the user or their behavior. Many spyware products will collect referrer info (information from your web browser which reveals what URL you linked from), your IP address (a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer), system information (such as time of visit, type of browser used, the operating system and platform, and CPU speed.) Spyware products sometimes wrap other commercial products, and are introduced to machines when those commercial products are installed. See also Adware.

Toolbar:  A group of buttons which perform common tasks. A toolbar for Internet Explorer is nomally located below the menu bar at the top of the form. Toolbars may be created by Browser Helper Objects.



Variants

HuntBar/TS is the original version, also providing an IE toolbar with search features. · HuntBar/Side is an addition to HuntBar/TS which also pops open a search sidebar pointed at its own results when it detects you using search engines. · HuntBar/MSLink is a development of HuntBar/Side dropping the toolbar from HuntBar/TS and adding the ability to redirect you instantly when browing targeting web pages. This is typically used to hijack affiliate fees from merchant sites. · HuntBar/BTLink is an updated version of MSLink. · HuntBar/MSIn and HuntBar/BTIn are installer controls for both the MSLink and BTLink variants. · HuntBar/SToolbar also tries to hijack your homepage to WebSearch.com, and copies searches you make in known search engines to the search field in the toolbar as you type. · HuntBar/QDow is a small downloader ActiveX control used to load HuntBar/BTIn. · HuntBar.Stoolbar · HuntBar.BTIn · HuntBar.BTLink · HuntBar.MSIn · HuntBar.MSLink · HuntBar.Side · HuntBar.TS · Huntbar.QDow · HuntBar.WebSearch ·

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