isreal company specialising in unwanted software (Wikipedia) found it on my computer Genieo Innovation was founded in April 2008 by Sol Tzvi and Jacob Tenenboem, with the goal of developing a personalization platform which, unlike common platforms, resides solely on the users computer and enables desktop application providers to add personalization capabilities without jeopardizing the users privacy. Based on concepts of text mining, behavioral targeting and personalization algorithms, Genieo has developed a framework that can automatically discover, manage and filter feeds according to users topics of interest. On July 2008, the company raised initial funding from private investors[8] and began developing the core of its personalization and recommendation engine. During 2009 the company developed and released its first product, a dynamic homepage that utilizes Genieos personalization framework to automatically create a personal newspaper-like homepage on the users browser. The software installs itself onto computers and makes it almost impossible for users to remove it. It hijacks the users browser and tracks browser usage with the intention of mining information. Users complain that it acts like a virus and they need to run special programs to remove it. Genieo is a virus that literally takes information on your computer and uploads it to other servers without your permission.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 06:56:11 +0000