Name: PowerStrip Category: Spyware Alias: Minstaller 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: PowerStrip is an IE toolbar with a search field and link buttons. When you use a targeted merchant site, PowerStrip silently sets the afffiliate ID, so as to steal commission fees from your web shopping. No privacy policy or EULA found, even during or after installing the software. Signatures: process: pslauncher.exe: MD5 Hash: cd495db21f7b51c12d5... process: pssetup.exe: MD5 Hash: 3ab2524954614304be1... process: ltdmgr.exe: MD5 Hash: ae4ff5d55551a23ac8d... process: pssetup.exe: MD5 Hash: f140a4fc16dc03b1cc6.. Type: Spyware - Spyware's primary purpose is to collect demographic and usage information from your computer, usually for advertising purposes. Spyware usually that 'sneaks' onto a system or performs other activities hidden to the user. Spyware programs are usually bundled as a hidden component and downloaded from the Internet. These modules are almost always installed on the system secretively and try to run secretively as well.