Adware.ShoppingReport

Posted: November 6, 2013

Threat Metric

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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.

Ranking:	5,478
Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	11,860

First Seen:	November 6, 2013
Last Seen:	October 10, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Adware.ShoppingReport is a browser add-on that modifies your Web browser for displaying new advertisements as a supposed enhancement to your online shopping experience. Adware.ShoppingReport often may be installed without your permission and alongside several other low-level PC threats. Since malware experts consider all forms of adware to be a potential security issue, deleting Adware.ShoppingReport and any related software with a strong anti-malware program should be your first and only reaction to seeing its advertisements.

When Your Virtual Shopping Cart is Full Up on Advertisements

Adware.ShoppingReport is one of the many adware programs that claim that their advertisements actually help you find good prices and products while you shop online, with injected advertisements for products related to the Web content you're already viewing. Regardless of whether you find Adware.ShoppingReport's advertisements helpful or useless, Adware.ShoppingReport fails basic browser security standards by disallowing you from disabling its advertisements or exercising any meaningful control over how they're displayed. This has forced malware experts to rate Adware.ShoppingReport as adware that should be uninstalled for your PC's safety.

Adware.ShoppingReport may be often installed without your permission, only adding further evidence to the probability of Adware.ShoppingReport being a non-beneficial add-on. Infection vectors for these attacks have yet to be identified, although malware analysts have found that they often may include additional PC threats that are installed with Adware.ShoppingReport, such as MyWebSearch browser hijackers and Not-a-virus:WebToolbar.Win32.Zango. The possibility of more than one type of threat being related to Adware.ShoppingReport attacks mandates the use of general anti-malware strategies for disinfecting an Adware.ShoppingReport-compromised computer.

The Final Report on Handling Adware.ShoppingReport

Advertisements from Adware.ShoppingReport attacks aren't intended to be unsafe, although unreliable advertising content may be shown through Adware.ShoppingReport as a consequence of its lack of concern for your safety. Malware experts primarily are concerned with Adware.ShoppingReport's tendency to be involved with other types of threats that are more problematic than Adware.ShoppingReport. General and thorough anti-malware-scanning solutions always should be considered for removing Adware.ShoppingReport – and making sure that there aren't any other PC threats hiding right next to Adware.ShoppingReport.

Since Adware.ShoppingReport's distribution methods are very sneaky, prevention from Adware.ShoppingReport requires protecting your browser from any threatening content. Avoid sites with unsafe histories, update your programs whenever they have new patches, make full use of any browser security features (particularly those concerned with disabling scripts) and, if practical, invest in anti-malware protection for your browser. Together, these features and habits may block most sources of unwanted Adware.ShoppingReport installations.

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Additional Information

The following URL's were detected:

http://regecish.net/-regecish.net