Name: 180 Search Boomerang Category: Trojan Downloader 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: Reloads 180 Search Assistant if it is uninstalled. 180search Assistant logs the web pages you visit, when you visit them and uploads the data to its servers. 180 Search Boomerang runs in the Windows directory and monitors if 180 Search Assistant has been uninstalled. if it detects 180 Search Assistant was removed it prompts you to reinstall it. This software is usually installed by other Spyware applications running on your machine, and is typically found on your machine along side 3 to 4 other spyware applications. From the EULA: "5. Display of Advertising. The Software will collect information about you and the websites you visit ("Usage Data"), but will not collect information that will be used to identify you personally. This information will be used to provide you with comparative shopping opportunities when they are most relevant. By installing and/or using the Software you grant permission for 180solutions to periodically display sponsors' websites to you, and to collect, use and disclose the Usage Data The frequency of the advertisements will vary depending on your use of the Internet. You acknowledge that the Software includes an anonymous user ID and an electronic cookie that enables 180solutions to collect such information and to display advertising targeted to you. A "cookie" is a small amount of data that 180solutions' servers transfer to your browser and that only 180solutions' servers can read. You understand that 180solutions does not control your interaction with the websites and advertisements displayed to you and we assume no responsibility for their content or privacy practices and policies. 6. Updates. 180solutions, in its sole discretion, may provide you with released Updates to the Software as part of this Agreement. The Software will check with 180solutions for these Updates automatically, and in the event that an Update is available, the Update will be installed automatically by the Software. Nothing herein shall be construed or interpreted as requiring that 180solutions provide these updates." Signatures: process: rypcryb.exe: MD5 Hash: f8489ef5e9bdfc21ffd... process: stubinstaller4528.exe: MD5 Hash: 426cfcc1b0ff757e84e... process: 180sacidinstaller.exe: MD5 Hash: 253ba85fd1bc40345e8... process: wbwlifup.exe: MD5 Hash: 69340a7c2442f1dddce.. Type: Trojan Downloader - A Trojan software is any software on a user's computer that the user is not aware or intentionally installed. Most Trojan software is designed to perform some sort of actions that could jeopardize the user's security or privacy.