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
c8cc47613e155f2129f480c6ced84549
DLL
8188957a68a7f030caa540dd0b67dd04
EXE
431c4c40e966280ba2800979a64bdcf9
EXE
8286626b220ad1999c661406a4f35b29
DLL
098c3d2c09fc5f5b6f37b9487804ad7c
EXE
f8130c7aa6e824198c00e036314ba22d
DLL
1f6a6f28501901dd38e986cb2da71e74
DLL
8a9388728cc2a25cdd4cc3412545898b
DLL
2092afb4342d44b4012f45237b85c93e
DLL
55200f89bfb4c84903f476d82cf86846