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SpyWare Microsoft?

Discussion in 'Security and Privacy' started by aleekat, 2002/02/06.

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    aleekat

    aleekat Inactive Thread Starter

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    Getting the new update list(02/02/02) from Ad-Aware, it found this in my reg.

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Extensions\{c95fe080-8f5d-11d2-a20b-00aa003c157a}

    Anyone know the purpose of this??
     
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    brett

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    It's the Alexa component of IE (put to use when you click on the "Related" button). If you neither use nor wish to keep this feature, the key can be safely deleted.
     
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    aleekat

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    Thanks guys, interesting reading on the links.
     
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