Metal Maker is the name given to a certain potentially unwanted program; by this we mean a malicious program that is not recognized as such by antivirus software, because it’s not as dangerous as a virus per se. Plus, we say “potentially” unwanted because its installation is done in a discrete way.
Metal Maker‘s mission is to broadcast as much publicity as possible when we are browsing the internet, while at the same time records sensible data about our online actions and data about our computers. This ads can be seen in different forms, for example as pop-ups, banners, or gleen/blue highlighted words turned into links among the text of the visited websites. To identify Metal Maker‘s ads is pretty easy because they are usually tagged as Metal Maker Ads or Powered by Metal Maker.
As said before, if you’re currently infected with Metal Maker, there are no more secrets between you and its creator, because the software saves data about our every move, e.g. IP address, data about the used browser, OS version, visited websites, keywords from web searches, geographical setting, among others that can easily be used to identify us.
Metal Maker owns some sort of official website, which was probably made in the hope that people will then trust the software as legit. On the other hand, the website is used to make their GCUs public where some of their malicious actions can be seen in detail. Please be aware that by installing the software you have approved all conditions, whether you did it on purpose or not.
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