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canetoad

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14. That browser
Sun Mar 20, 2022, 02:27 PM
Mar 2022

Certainly a nasty piece of work. I thought bundled unwanted software went out with Real Player.

From this site: https://howtoremove.guide/wavebrowser-virus/

There’s not much information about Wavesor Software on the Internet. From what we’ve been able to find out about it, Wavesor Software is apparently the trade name of a company known as Polarity Technologies Ltd which, in turn, seems to be a shell company owned by the Chinese Genimous Technology Co Ltd. Some researchers go as far as to speculate that Genimous Technology Co Ltd uses the browser developed by Wavesor to secretly gather user data without the informed permission of the users and then use said data when developing browser-hijacking tools. We have been able to find no proof for such claims, yet the fact that there’s so much ambiguity surrounding the Wave browser leads us to think that it may be best if you don’t allow it to reside on your computer for any longer.

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