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Full Name:
BuddyLinks Websearch   Read More
Type: Adware
Created by: PSD Tools, LLC.
SG Index: 3 [Explain]
Removal tools: List of products that detect/remove/protect against BuddyLinks:
  • IM, P2P control, malware prevention and web filtering in single appliance: Unified Security Gateway
  • Category Description: Program that delivers advertisements on your PC.

    Note that many websites have their own advertising, unrelated to adware.

    Adware is any software application in which advertising is displayed while the program is running. The authors of these applications include additional code that delivers the ads, which can be viewed through pop-up windows or through a bar that appears on a computer screen and sometimes through text links or in integrated search results. Adware may or may not track personal information. It may also gather information anonymously or in aggregate only. Users should check the EULA and Privacy policy to ensure if the adware on their machines conforms to their standards.
    Official Description: This product is disguised as a game. It will send links to itself to all people on your buddy list in AOL messenger, coming from you and asking to install this software. Once somebody does this, the process repeats with their list
    Comment: Their site, www.buddylinks.net, is listed for sale.
    Information URL: http://www.buddylinks.net/
       
    Properties:
  •  Changes browser
  •  Connects to the internet
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