Name: Onflow Category: Adware 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: Onflow is a rich media player with a silent update feature. Very widespread, installed quietly by a very wide range of applications, games and even other threats! OnFlow's player plug-in also works in Netscape and Opera as well as IE. The Onflow player calls back to Onflow's servers when an advert is played, with a player ID. This allows tracking in a similar way to 'third party cookies'. Signatures: process: onflowreport.exe: MD5 Hash: 2f2374ef5a9e69b9037... process: uninstall onflow.exe: MD5 Hash: 8d56e78cd374572fdf2... process: of_stub_ins_w_2071.exe: MD5 Hash: .. Type: Adware - Adware is generally software that displays advertisements. Some advertisers may covertly install adware on your system and generate a stream of unsolicited advertisements that can clutter your desktop and affect your productivity. The advertisements may also contain pornographic or other material that you might find inappropriate. The extra processing required to track you or to display advertisements can tax your computer and hurt your system performance.