Spyware Quake is a trojan that displays an icon in the system tray. This icon shows a message, which says that the compromised computer is infected with dangerous spyware parasites and asks the user to download and install a removal program, which actually is Spyware Quake, corrupt illegally distributed spyware remover. Once the user clicks on that message, the trojan opens a web site distributing Spyware Quake. It may also try to download the application. The trojan is able to change the Internet Explorer default home page and redirect the web browser to malicious web sites. SpywareQuake automatically runs on every Windows startup.