a006.exe Review – Monitoring Your Surfing History

“a006.exe” is a spyware program that resides in the WINDOWS folder or in the “System Volume Information” folder in the parent drive of the system. It is a private process owned by the Claria Corporation as a part of the Claria advertisement program. Inner part of the process information reveals that it is part of “Adware.W32.Claria”.

This program runs in the background and monitors your surfing history and all the pages you visit online. Later on, it sends the information to an online database in a remote system. This database analyses the information sent by the a006 program for its own use. Due to this, there is considerable loss of your private information in the form of your browsing history.

The a006 process also acts as an adware. It constantly invokes advertisement windows and pop-ups as a means to disturb you. Apart from being an adware and a spyware to a small extent, it does not bring about great loss to the system.

The a006 process has a security threat of 20% to the system. It slows down the system by eating up memory. It is advisable for you to disable this process immediately after it has been detected. It can be removed by the possible use of any anti spyware program like spysweeper.

Since this program runs as a background process along with the other processes, it can be visible in the task list in the task manager program. To disable it temporarily, end the process directly from the task manager applications bar.