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
d3ba4345975548b18238fd6e1573a759
DLL
46d54f9d95aecc75732849321db82a2a
EXE
7299ce99260844d7c2a0badd8e35b825
EXE
8be319de436ce4ceda1d2563a3c5ec78
DLL
240f34b68970dadecb4bfa69dfbc583d
DLL
84fe460490ae4d04761f63c55cce610a
EXE
5c6964fa29247ae339142ba7a85f4910
DLL
97514d84b708379787666e7bcc00ecca
DLL
a239bc519bdaef45dcce3fecc280729c
DLL
b502c149734ab7f4f165cbaecd41d65e