What is AOL Spyware Protection?

AOL Spyware Protection is software application developed by AOL Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 42.24% of installations running this operating system. AOL Spyware Protection's installer is typically 3.00 MB in size and installs around 8 files. The most common release is 1.0.66 with 52.80% of all installations currently using this version.

AOL Spyware Protection is most popular in the United States with 91.92% of installations residing in this country.

AOL Spyware Protection adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, AOL Spyware Protection is known to create 3 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

Software Behaviors

Services:

UNWISE.EXE runs as a service named 'Browser System Enahncer' (671c50b0).

Firewall:

asp.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\aol\AOL Spyware Protection\asp.exe'.
AOLSP Scheduler.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\aol\AOL Spyware Protection\AOLSP Scheduler.exe'.
UNWISE.EXE is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files1\Yahoo!\MESSEN~1\UNWISE.EXE'.

Scheduled tasks: