Spyware Warrior

[cissp]

After installing Spy Sweeper and running my first scan, one of the hits (the other two being the Alexa Toolbar and Backweb) was something called "OpenSite". There wasn't any relevant information provided on this from within the program, so I emailed their technical support. I would like to know if anyone has any info on this adware, since Webroot does not. I am also particularly disturbed that even though Spy Sweeper caught this "OpenSite", SS&D, Ad-Aware, X-Cleaner, SpyCop, and HT did not. What follows is my email to them, and their response:

"Upon my initial scan, the results indicated the presence of adware named only as "OpenSite". Selecting more details only revealed a generic explanation that this was in the category of adware. I would like to have specifics on this. I scan my system almost daily with Spybot S&D, Ad-Aware, X-Cleaner, Norton AV, TrojanHunter, HijackThis, SpyCop, as well as keeping SpywareBlaster up to date, and am amazed that Spy Sweeper found this \"OpenSite\" (by the way, it also found the Alexa Toolbar, which my other applications did not catch).

Hello,
OpenSite is still being researched. It is a very new issue. You can read more about it here:
http://www.zuvio.com/terms.html"

Thanks,
Chuck

[CalamityKen]

[cissp]

Ken,

Thanks for providing the link below regarding Zuvio, who are responsible for OpenSite. As I said, Spy Sweeper detected this malware, and I deleted it, as well as configuring my system to not allow its presence in the future. I will pass on this link to Webroot, since they did not seem to have any information on it when I asked.

Chuck

[blender]

Hi

More info here:

http://sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/adware.opensite.html
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