Infonaut is an unwanted program that installs onto our computers with its own agenda, starting with showing huge amounts of publicity while at the same time it takes the liberty to spy on our every move online and extracts what are supposed to be “anonymous” cookies from our profiles so they can sell all that data to enterprises interested in following us online.
Here’s an example of an ad shown by Infonaut:
Frankly, it’s clear that people developing these kind of good for nothing software are not in the slightest concerned about respecting your privacy, confidentiality or even your right to feel safe online. All they care about is how easy they can make easy money through you. They make every effort to seduce download platforms to offer their programs by offering as much as 2€ per successful installation. No wonder Infonaut is found in several of these platforms, such as 01net, clubic and softonic…
For example, we can see below a setup program trying to install Infonaut in a discrete manner:
The best approach to avoid this is to be very careful whenever we download a free software, always prioritizing downloads from the official websites. We should also be very careful when browsing a streaming website or a torrent website, it’s common to see there attempts to make us download fake video players.
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