If you’ve ever seen ads signed ad by Finance Alert, or Finance Alert Ads, or even powered by Finance Alert, it’s because you’ve stumbled across an adware that has made your computer its home. How is this possible if you have an antivirus? You’ve undoubtedly acquired this by downloading some free software. In the example below, you can see that Finance Alert is integrated with the installation of the software 7-Zip.
In the case above, clicking the Next button is enough to unknowingly accept the terms for Finance Alert which will be installed onto your computer. These terms can be read at the moment of installation by clicking the “Term of Use” or by visiting the “official” site for the adware.
There, you can see that you’re giving the application the authorization to collect: pages you visit, the time you spend on each site, your browser, your IP address, your browsing history, the processes you run on your computer, programs installed on your PC, etc…
You can also see the creators of this program reserve the right to hold this personal information in their database. It is also pointed out that they reserve the right to send you ads. And you won’t miss those; you’ll see these ads by Finance Alert slide into a good portion of the sites you visit.
So your antivirus did not react because it was not capable of detecting the adware, or maybe because it understood you installed this “software” voluntarily.
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