Idle-Crawler

Idle-Crawler

Known Generic

by GigaClicks LP

What is Idle-Crawler?

Idle-Crawler is software application developed by GigaClicks LP. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 67.00% of installations running this operating system. Idle-Crawler's installer is typically 140.00 MB in size and installs around 72 files. The most common release is 59.0.0.407 with 64.00% of all installations currently using this version.

Idle-Crawler is most popular in the United States with 90.96% of installations residing in this country.

Idle-Crawler adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About Idle-Crawler?

Idlecrawler is a data collection software that gathers information from various open sources on the internet in three specific fields: Google search engine result pages, advertising settings, and Twitter stream posts. The collected data is then transmitted from the user's computer to Gigaclicks' work servers and delivered to the client in the form of a detailed report. In addition to data collection, users also have the capability to download and convert videos using IdleCrawler. It is important to note that all data research conducted by Idlecrawler is sourced from open sources, and is conducted transparently.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Idle-Crawler.

Idle-Crawler.exe (MD5: 5490f131035a76fcd4eead1b4f3bf40c) has been flagged by 12 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Kazy.394248
Avira AntiVir TR/Kazy.394248.1
Bitdefender Gen:Variant.Kazy.394248
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Gen:Variant.Kazy.394248
F-Secure Gen:Variant.Kazy.394248
G Data Gen:Variant.Kazy.394248
IKARUS anti.virus Win32.SuspectCrc
McAfee Artemis!5490F131035A
McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis!5490F131035A
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Kazy.394248
Qihoo-360 Win32/Trojan.b81
TrendMicro-HouseCall Suspicious_GEN.F47V0615

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:
  • Idle-Crawler.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Idle-Crawler Runner' (runs daily at 12:09 PM).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • Idle-Crawler.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Idle-Crawler Runner.

Software Details

URL:
https://idlecrawler.com/help
Support:
Installation path:
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Idle-Crawler
Uninstaller:
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\IDLE-C~1\uninstall.exe
Size:
140.00 MB
Language:
English

Idle-Crawler Executable Details

Primary executable:
Idle-Crawler.exe
Name:
Idle-Crawler
Path:
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Idle-Crawler\Idle-Crawler.exe
MD5:
5490f131035a76fcd4eead1b4f3bf40c
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Idle-Crawler
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
485a5e0f1e3f40f50dc08ebf80f8390a
DLL
01e5820a4dac5220478489321324466b
DLL
8767e12c067cfa3107aa4d1d1985d2c2
DLL
fc11c9f0420c05a29b5fb33898d05197
EXE
5b4c9ca85d3572c1ba4192276098409f
EXE
8bd696b45e907a6e5859e30bad9b24ed
DLL
d9997212254ab2828b5d7eb061f8f6b6
DLL
4dd4bdb5ae676c8845d316f2507ca1d9
EXE
e991a3af8606af247a154bbcd93dd7af
DLL
49b78a23b0d8d5d8fb60d4e472b22764