PasswordView

Posted by Max Lehmann on September 28, 2015

What is PasswordView?

PasswordView is one more adware program coming from the Lyrics family. It should act like a password reminder tool. Just click on the image of the key generated by this application and it will display your password if you have earlier entered it on the website you currently visit. Even if it may look as a useful feature, you should not trust your passwords to this application. The reason is that this program collects information about your Web browsing tendencies and shares it with its business partners. Do not guess whether PasswordView could share your passwords with those partners or not. Remove the application from your PC thus preventing any possible negative consequences. test

What does PasswordView do?

This application spies on you and collects information about your browsing tendencies. It uses pixel tags and cookies to monitor your online behavior. Be aware that all the collected information can be transferred to unknown third parties and later be used for unknown purposes.

What’s more, PasswordView allows third parties to serve ads through the application. You should know that the adware program carries no responsibility for any content that you will encounter in those advertisements. We strongly recommend that you skip every offer, even the most tempting one, you may find in the ads generated by PasswordView. You may never know what kind of page you can be transferred to in case of clicking on any of the ads. In the worst case scenario, you can even land on an infected site, and it will require much time and money to clean your system from dangerous viruses. So, do not trust any content generated by this adware program.

Where does PasswordView come from?

This program belongs to the Lyrics family of adware applications. The malware researchers working at Anti-spyware-101.com have already examined some members of that family, including Zorable and View That Deal. All these applications have their official websites, but the download button on those sites does not work. Most likely, developers of these programs never intended to allow downloading them from official sources. The research team has found that PasswordView is usually placed in packages with other free applications. People like to get things for free, and many users are frequent visitors of various freeware download websites. However, the vast majority of users do not even know that they often receive additional and probably unwanted applications together with the free software they install. We suggest that you download programs only from trustworthy and legitimate sources and never skip a possibility to go through the Custom installation mode.

PasswordView is not a program you need to keep installed any longer. Fortunately, it is quite easy to eliminate the application. Just thoroughly follow our instructions and the intrusive adware program will be gone. However, if it came to your PC without you noticing, you need to make sure that no additional potentially dangerous programs are hiding somewhere on your system. The best way how you can do this is by scanning your computer using a reliable anti-spyware program. It will find all the invaders and wipe them out thus ensuring that your computer is protected from any threats. If you look for a recommendation on which tool to use, feel free to address us by posting your comment below.