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^ 'Apple removed Facebook's Onavo from the App Store for gathering app data'.

^ 'Facebook's Protect security feature is essentially Spyware'.

^ 'Facebook's New 'Onavo Protect' VPN is a Spyware App'.

'Facebook is pushing its data-tracking Onavo VPN within its main mobile app'.

^ 'Complaint for Permanent Injunction and Other Equitable Relief (PDF, 25 pages)' (PDF).

Washington State Office of the Attorney General.

^ 'Attorney General McKenna Sues and Associates for Spyware'.

^ 'FTC, Washington Attorney General Sue to Halt Unfair Movieland Downloads'.

^ 'What is Huntbar or Search Toolbar?'.

^ 'CA Spyware Information Center вЂ“ HuntBar'.ca.com.

^ 'GO Keyboard - Emoticon keyboard, Free Theme, GIF'.

^ 'GO Keyboard - Emoji keyboard, Swipe input, GIFs'.

'Software Meant to Fight Crime Is Used to Spy on Dissidents'.

AOL Instant Messenger (AOL Instant Messenger still packages Viewpoint Media Player, and WildTangent).

Programs formerly distributed with spyware

Zwangi redirects URLs typed into the browser's address bar to a search page at and may also take screenshots without permission.

The app was removed from the Apple iOS App Store Apple deemed it a violation of guidelines barring apps from harvesting data from other apps on a user's device.

Onavo Protect is used by Facebook to monetize usage habits within a privacy-focused environment, and was criticized because the app listing did not contain a prominent disclosure of Facebook's ownership.

The FTC filed a complaint, since settled, against Movieland and eleven other defendants charging them with having 'engaged in a nationwide scheme to use deception and coercion to extract payments from consumers.'

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Consumers complained they were held hostage by a cycle of oversized pop-up windows demanding payment of at least $29.95, claiming that they had signed up for a three-day free trial but had not cancelled before the trial period was over, and were thus obligated to pay.

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Movieland, also known as and, is a movie download service that has been the subject of thousands of complaints to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Washington State Attorney General's Office, the Better Business Bureau, and other agencies.

Rootkit technology is also seeing increasing use, as newer spyware programs also have specific countermeasures against well known anti-malware products and may prevent them from running or being installed, or even uninstall them. With no process to terminate they are harder to detect and remove, which is a combination of both spyware and a rootkit.

Spyware such as Look2Me hides inside system-critical processes and start up even in safe mode.

However, because password-protected Web sites (HTTP Basic authentication) use the same mechanism as HTTP errors, Internet Optimizer makes it impossible for the user to access password-protected sites. When users follow a broken link or enter an erroneous URL, they see a page of advertisements.

Internet Optimizer, also known as DyFuCa, redirects Internet Explorer error pages to advertising.

These programs add toolbars to IE, track aggregate browsing behavior, redirect affiliate references, and display advertisements.

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HuntBar, aka WinTools or Adware.Websearch, was installed by an ActiveX drive-by download at affiliate Web sites, or by advertisements displayed by other spyware programs-an example of how spyware can install more spyware.

The apps with about 2 million users in total were caught spying in September 2017 by security researchers from AdGuard who then reported their findings to Google. Some of these plugins are detected as Adware or PUP by many Anti-Virus engines, while the developer, a Chinese company GOMO Dev Team, claims in the apps' description that they will never collect personal data including credit card information.

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The apps also download and execute a code from a remote server, breaching the Malicious Behavior section of the Google Play privacy policies.

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This information includes user's Google account email, language, IMSI, location, network type, Android version and build, and device's model and screen size.

GO Keyboard, virtual Android keyboard apps (GO Keyboard - Emoji keyboard and GO Keyboard - Emoticon keyboard ), transmit personal information to its remote servers without explicit users' consent.

Support services such as training and technology updates are part of the package.

FinFisher, sometimes called FinSpy is a high-end surveillance suite sold to law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

It displays pop-up ads, rewrites search engine results, and alters the infected computer's hosts file to direct DNS lookups to these sites. The package directs traffic to advertisements on Web sites including.

CoolWebSearch, a group of programs, takes advantage of Internet Explorer vulnerabilities.

3 Programs formerly distributed with spyware.