Name: Adw.Claria.GotSmiley Category: Adware Alias: GotSmiley Advice: Remove Risk: Moderate Risk Moderate threats may profile users online habits or broadcast data back to a server with 'opt-out' permission. In most cases this type of threat is more along the lines of commercial type adware that offer a premium service in exchange for tracking your user online performance. Description: GotSmiley is an ad supported program that provides the user with smileys for use in emails. GotSmiley is from Claria's GAIN Network. Its smiley's can be used with a variety of email clients. Like other GAIN Network products, it displays ads, including pop ups and pup unders, on the user's desktop in response to the user's web browsing. Ads may also be "sliders" and embedded in the application itself. The privacy policy(http://www.gotsmiley.com/help/privacy_statement.html) applies to all the CLARIA/GAIN products and states no personally identifying information is gathered or transmitted. Non personally identifying information is randomly collected and used to create a user profile of what products they may be interested in. The software can be removed from Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. Signatures: process: gsyuninstaller.exe: MD5 Hash: 5dd43e37258739b1275... process: gotsmileysetupwebsite.exe: MD5 Hash: 841bba066577764f58f... process: gsyupdater.exe: MD5 Hash: c4fc399785c744fbe2b... process: gotsmiley.exe: MD5 Hash: ec002fd442bb2ec0616... process: gsyupdater.exe: MD5 Hash: f25e07261a96b6f41b5... process: gotsmileysetupwebsite.exe: MD5 Hash: b557f527fdc53f7566b... process: gsyuninstaller.exe: MD5 Hash: c9e4d0679d61adb13cd... process: gotsmiley.exe: MD5 Hash: d47b2151abbfd05a911.. 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.