Walermis

Walermis is a unique name for an average adware-type program. This application has been developed to display third-party advertisements that you probably do not want to see, and, if that is the case, you should remove it at your earliest convenience. Apart from displaying advertisements, Walermis does nothing. It is not useful in any way and will only cause you a lot of inconvenience. But before we get into that let us discuss where this application comes from.

Walermis belongs to the SuperWeb adware family. SuperWeb is a limited liability company that is owned by the Sambreel/Yontoo group, a web advertising company based in Carlsbad, California. This company is widely known for distributing browser extensions that promote commercial content. Walermis is neither the first nor the last application this company has rolled out. We can also mention a couple of older SuperWeb programs that you can still accidentally download. This list includes, but is not limited to, Computer Chair, Dig Deep, Thirteen Degrees, and Web Layers. These applications are almost identical; only the names differ.

Like its predecessors, Walermis is distributed via software bundles. These software bundles are put up for download on several free software distributing websites, so it is possible that you might install this adware program unintentionally, because most of the time the bundles are made in a confusing way to trick you into installing undesirable software. Of course, Walermis has a promotional website at Walermis.org. However, the download button does not work, and it seems that the website’s only purpose is to host the End User License Agreement and the Privacy Policy, which we are going to discuss.

The license agreement says that Walermis can render “search-related ads, banner and video ads, in-text ads and links, transitional, interstitial, and full page ads.” Obviously, this wide array of advertising options is not beneficial to you, because the ads are annoying. Furthermore, the license agreement states that the developers are not affiliated with or responsible for any third-party advertisements. This means that, if your computer is harmed or if you experience a financial loss, the company that advertised the products and services cannot be held accountable. Shedding responsibility only makes this application even more unreliable, as it only increases the suspicions that some of the promoted content is unreliable.

Now let us move on to the matters of privacy, because it is very important. The Privacy Policy states that Walermis uses browser cookies, Adobe Flash cookies, pixels, beacons, and other means of information acquisition to keep tabs on your browsing activities. The program might obtain information such as your browsing history, search queries, approximate geographical location, and so on. This information is used for marketing purposes and might be shared with third parties of unknown origin, so you should remove Walermis if you do not want it snooping around.

In conclusion, Walermis is definitely not a useful application that you would willingly install. Its only purpose is to display unreliable advertisements that can cause you all kinds of trouble. Furthermore, the program is set to collect information about you that is used for “improving your browsing experience” and might even be shared with third parties, so, if you do not want this application compromising your computer’s security, you should remove it ASAP.