Ads By Vidx

Posted: July 7, 2014

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

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:	1/10
Infected PCs:	426

First Seen:	July 7, 2014
Last Seen:	June 3, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Ads By Vidx is a media add-on for your browser that claims to offer codec updates, which may be essential for playing movie files (both ones that are streamed and ones that are downloaded to your hard drive). While Ads By Vidx may provide some improvements to your video-playing experiences, Ads By Vidx also makes changes to your browser for the express, and unnecessary purpose of delivering potentially unsafe advertisements. In most cases, removing Ads By Vidx, and all other adware, is guaranteed to make your browser a safer and more stable application, and malware experts see no point in recommending anything else for this product.

Seeing a Little Something Extra with Your Videos

As evidenced by the continuing boom of sites like YouTube and its competitors, online videos are very favored forms of online content available today. On the other end of things, for many PC users, the process of having updated software to play such content remains a relatively arcane and obtuse process. Ads By Vidx is one of the adware products that take advantage of this lack of clarity to offer their users video updates with no hassle – but also, unneeded advertisements.

Under the pretense of offering universal codec updates that will enable high-quality video playback, Ads By Vidx changes your Web browsers to display advertising content automatically. Such advertisements usually are injected into Web pages automatically, thus modifying their content in unintended ways. These advertisements are, as you might anticipate, frequently identifiable through their tags: Ads By Vidx.

Although adware like Ads By Vidx does not always endanger your PC, their advertisements may be exploited by third parties, who may deliver PC threats through fake updates, contest hoaxes and similar attacks. Due to the poor reputations of such advertisement networks, malware experts find that deleting Ads By Vidx, like all adware, is safer than letting Ads By Vidx stay on your computer for questionable advantages. Browser lag and problems with accessing Web page interfaces also may result from the modifications made by Ads By Vidx, which aren't intended by the original websites.

The Removal of a Browser Video Downgrade

Besides the ever-accompanying security problems of a browser add-on that loads advertisements automatically, Ads By Vidx also has historically been difficult to uninstall, more so than any valid application would warrant. For the safest means of keeping your video codecs updated, malware researchers would recommend using specific codecs from reputable sources, rather than using a single 'one size fits all' codec package that doesn't specify which formats it supports. It also should be stressed that legitimate codec updates do not need to bundle with browser add-ons, extensions or toolbars like the aforementioned Vidx.

In all cases, advertising add-ons that put your browser and computer at risk should be thought of as Potentially Unwanted Programs, whose removal only can benefit your machine. Since Ads By Vidx may fail to delete its advertising changes along with the rest of its program, Ads By Vidx may need to be removed by dedicated anti-adware removal tools. However, malware researchers have not rated Ads By Vidx as a high-level threat, and normal system scans should be more than sufficient for deleting Ads By Vidx and the advertisements that Ads By Vidx promotes.

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