Adware.Webalta
Posted: February 13, 2012
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.
Ranking: | 9,964 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 11,474 |
First Seen: | February 13, 2012 |
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Last Seen: | October 8, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Webalta is a dangerous computer browser hijacker. Webalta, spawning from the potentially malicious Webalta.ru website is known for changing internet settings and web browser default home page addresses. In most cases on a PC infected with the Webalta threat, it will load up random unwanted web pages where some could be hacked to spread malware. Additionally, Webalta through the home.Webalta.ru web site, the threat could load misleading pop-up alerts and then collect user clicks to generate money for the hackers behind the Webalta scheme. Through changing settings and redirecting to unwanted sites, Webalta could render a system virtually useless for surfing the web in a normal fashion.
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Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:%APPDATA%\Adobe\sp.DLL
File name: sp.DLLSize: 96.76 KB (96768 bytes)
MD5: ae9f73df396bfbec4873567a859276da
Detection count: 19
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/DLL
Path: %APPDATA%\Adobe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 20, 2012
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