Name: NetAware Category: Surveillance Advice: Remove Risk: Elevated Risk Elevated threats are usually threats that fall into the range of adware in which data about a user's habits are tracked and sent back to a server for analysis without your consent or knowledge. Description: NetAware is a monitoring tool that logs and records all shared file activity on your computer or network. NetAware can log what files users access and what shares they connect to and disconnect from on your file shares. Signatures: process: Shortcut to NetAware.exe.lnk: MD5 Hash: 05f8a4cc2458a714ec8... process: shortcut to netaware.exe.lnk: MD5 Hash: ... process: Shortcut to NetAware.exe.lnk: MD5 Hash: 8922451d447e6fa3250.. Type: Surveillance - Any software designed to use a webcam, microphone, screen capture, or other approaches to monitor and capture information. Some such software will transmit this captured information to a remote source.