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Just today I saw that Alexa has changed their rating system – their official news announcement says that NOW more sources will be used to come to a rating, also they claim to be using NEW algorithms that will determine the rating even better. Also the traffic from different countries is now taken into account. [...]

Well, no … probably not. At least not if you haven’t deliberately installed some of their software.
But Lavasoft’s Ad-Aware identifies a standard registry key included with Internet Explorer as “Data Miner” spyware, with little or no further explanation, and offers to delete it. I hope this page offers a better explanation, and other alternatives to [...]