Avast!, Bitdefender, Comodo, Dr. Web, ESET, Fortinet, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Trend Micro Housecall, Sophos and Symantec In July 2014, Genieo was acquired for $34 million by Somoto, another company which "bundles legitimate applications with offers for additional third party applications that may be unwanted by the user." In August 2015, malware researchers discovered a Genieo installer which acquired access to the Mac keychain, by an automated click on "allow", when the permission dialog for the keychain was displayed. The code was in a Safari browser extension added by Genieo, and was also contained, but not immediately used, in earlier versions of the installer. Genieo case became the impetus for the rapid emergence of similar adware: Only Search, MacShop Ads, MacVX, etc. See also Spyware Personalization Adaptive hypermedia Behavioral targeting References Software companies of Israel Adware Online advertising MacOS malware Spyware companies