Computer Pal is a name linked to an unwanted program that counts on users being too distracted to insert itself onto their systems. Computer Pal is developed to achieve two goals: first of all to show many ads while the user is browsing the internet, and the second one to record everything he/she does online.
Ads created and shown by Computer Pal are capable to insert themselves into every possible corner, either directly onto the content of each website visited regularly (through banners, pop-ups, underlined words) or through the unexpected opening of new windows every time you click on something, although sometimes no interaction on your behalf is needed.
These ads are covered with the mention Computer Pal Ads or Powered by Computer Pal, it’s usually thanks to these tags that people come to realize they have been infected.
Computer Pal can also be compared with a spyware, because it spies on your activity online, such as which websites you visit, which searches you make, in an attempt to customize better their ads; plus they save all that data into commercial databases they will sell afterwards.
Computer Pal as many other advertising software, is installed at the same time as some other free program. In many cases we’re dealing with fake video players offered in TV series and film streaming websites; or we could have downloaded a fake update for Java or Flash; finally we see them often added to downloads coming from big download platforms like softonic.com, sourceforge.com, soft32.com because they earn money through them. In fact they get paid for every successful installation.
Here’s a screenshot of Computer Pal’s website, which was created only to publish their conditions of use. Conditions that by the way are accepted and approved simply by installing the software.
Computer Pal is already known to several anti-virus programs because it is in fact a new version of the previous infection known as BrowseFox. SuperWeb LLC the company behind these unwanted programs always works in the same way, all it does is change the name of their program and create a new website where they can publish the terms and conditions.
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