Lawrence Abrams, security researcher for Bleeping Computer, has stumbled upon a new type of adware that's not content on just blasting you with ads and collecting data on your system, but also on secretly taking a screenshot of your desktop and uploading it online.
Called Faster Internet, the program comes bundled with other legitimate software, but once installed is when the real damage will be done.
The first thing it will do is to record details regarding each user's PC setup, a technique called fingerprinting, often used in advertising to distinguish between different users.
Faster Internet collects data such as motherboard, CPU, hard drives, network adapters serials, and other similar.
Besides this highly personal information, the adware literally crosses the line into malware behavior when it takes a secret screenshot of your active desktop windows, and then uploads it to an online server.
