Name: ViewPoint Beta Category: Potential Privacy Risk Advice: Keep Risk: Low Risk Low risk threats pose a very low risk or no immediate danger to your computer or your privacy, however these types of applications may profile user online habits, but only according to specific privacy policies stated in the applications End-User License. These types of threats generally borderline on being a threat to being a standard application that has a complex license agreement that you knowingly installed. Description: ViewPoint Toolbar will hijack your search queries and also transmits non personally identifiable information back to their servers Signatures: process: viewbarinstallerbeta.exe: MD5 Hash: 5f653b51cb8660a354b... process: viewbarinstallerbeta.exe: MD5 Hash: 5f653b51cb8660a354b.. Type: Potential Privacy Risk - A browser plug-in is an application that can be installed within a user's web browser. Plug-ins can come in the form of a toolbar that is included in your web browser or a search or navigation feature to extra task buttons on the browser. Although most plug-ins are designed to perform necessary functions, many plug-ins are harmful to you computer because they have complete access to your web browser and can modify, spy and redirect any task you perform.