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Posted: November 30, 2015
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 8/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 344 |
First Seen: | November 30, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | March 25, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
If you encounter some aggressive ads with the slogan 'Generated by Song' during your surfing sessions, then there is certainly adware on your PC. This questionable software is there for only one reason, which is to make sponsored third-party sites more popular. Song may attach rather firmly as an extension to all available browsers, including the most popular ones such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. This trivial name is not selected randomly. The developers of suspicious tools often name them in such a way that will make it very hard to find information about them on the Internet. This fact means that even if you decide to install the adware intentionally, your efforts to find a site that hosts it will most likely be in vain.
Song doesn't use direct and authorized downloads to reach its customers. Instead, it may be found in different software bundles, where the main program is most often free of charge. In case the users select the 'Quick' menu or clicks the 'I agree' buttons without reading, they may agree to load the adware accidentally. After it gets installed, Song may create additional banners, pop-ups, interstitial ads and animations immediately. Most of them may try to draw your attention with eye-catching colors. You may face the same commercial materials in most of the pages that you open, which may soon enough become an annoying process. The mere existence of marketing elements may seize a part of your PC's resources, which may lead to occasional speed drops, freezes and crashes. The displayed offers and discounts may be related to your browsing history. If you want to check them, you should be careful because the legitimacy of the sponsored sites may be doubtful. In order delete Song from your browsers, you need to scan the PC with suitable security software.
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