Desktop Recipe is the given name of a malicious software distributed mainly trhough free software whose setup program has been modified by certain download platforms to include it. By forgetting to customize the install process, users won’t have the opportunity to notice nor reject malicious software from installing along with the desired tool. Lets not forget that Desktop Recipe rarely comes alone, many other infections are installed at the same time.
Desktop Recipe’s real functionality is to show huge amounts of ads while you browse the net. It won’t be beating around the bush to accomplish this goal, it will go for the source code of every website you visit inserting its own code to show ads. E-commerce websites are Desktop Recipe’s favorites. It also acts like a spy, analyzing everything you do online.
Clearly then, besides ruining your browsing experience, Desktop Recipe takes the opportunity to check and collect data about every website you visit and every web search you make. It goes as far as analyzing your computer’s contents as well, according to them with statistics purposes. In all truth what they want is to save all this data into databases they can easily sale afterwards.
There’s a sort of official website for Desktop Recipe, where its developer takes the liberty to say the tool is “100% virus free”; nonetheless on the community Desktop Recipe is known as a potentially unwanted (and malicious) software.
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