IDP.ALEXA.51

IDP.Alexa.51 is an AVG behavior-based detection for spyware that may collect identity-related information. It often circulates through downloads of illicit piracy-related content or free Web games. Users should treat all cases of this threat as potentially threatening and remove IDP.Alexa.51 with anti-malware tools as necessary.

Data Snatchers with Their Eyes on Software Pirates and Gamers

Keeping track of the ways Trojans, viruses, and spyware circulate is a busy business, and even more so for victims trying to avoid their attacks. IDP.Alexa.51, a heuristic label for threats that fall under an umbrella of potentially-threatening, data-collecting behavior, is a years-relevant showing of the many ways threats can wander the Web. As usual, though, Web surfers minding their own business and not partaking of forbidden fruits aren't nearly as threatened by it as others.

IDP.Alexa.51 belongs to a broad category of threats flagged by AVG's identity protection module. This group includes various spyware types that endanger the user's identity by collecting passwords or other credentials that attackers could use for fraud. Since IDP.Alexa.51 is a behavioral label, not every detection is accurate. Still, users with updated AVG software should experience few 'false flags' of the program's detecting a legitimate file or program as threatening.

Although there isn't just one single type of IDP.Alexa.51 program, malware experts, often relate variants of this threat to given distribution models. Users are more likely to encounter IDP.Alexa.51 attacks and installation exploits in these scenarios:

• Downloading illicit files, such as license activators for premium software (KMSpico) or copyright-protected games and movies
• Downloading 'free' Flash games from websites without properly-secure vetting for their uploads

Therefore, users can protect themselves by avoiding compromised websites and file-sharing networks and preferentially acquiring downloads from reputable storefronts.

The Remote Possibility of a Spyware Fake-Out

Not every threat identification is one hundred percent accurate, although users always should take an alert from their security solutions seriously. Behavior-derived flags such as IDP.Alexa.51 are more prone to these false positives than more specific threat entries. As a first step in preventing these problems, malware researchers recommend users keep their security programs as up-to-date as possible concerning their databases, particularly.

Users that doubt an IDP.Alexa.51 detection's accuracy may contact their security company through their website or make inquiries on their forums to further proceed. If it's verifiable that the file is safe, whitelisting or adding an exception for ignoring it should be possible for virtually all cyber-security programs.

Exposure to any spyware, including this one, places information at risk for theft. Check Web accounts for unusual activity or transactions, and always change passwords and other login-securing credentials after removing IDP.Alexa.51 from compromised systems.

In the worst case, IDP.Alexa.51 may hijack bank accounts or record the entirety of a keyboard's strokes. On the happier side, IDP.Alexa.51 sometimes, legitimately is nothing, but no one on the Web should ever bet much on that assumption.