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Posted: October 16, 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: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 26 |
First Seen: | October 14, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | December 8, 2020 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Astro Find is adware, whose main purpose is to insert commercial materials in your web clients. The developer of this questionable and often unrequested web add-on is SuperWeb LLC. This suspicious application is not the first unreliable tool made by this firm. SuperWeb LLC creates tons of extensions that work in an identical manner. Usually, the name is the only difference that you may see. Just like Sail Deals, Any Angle and Common Dots, Astro Find promises a comprehensive optimization of your browsers. Some users may be tricked to install this adware expecting it to enhance their searches or improve their online shopping. If the description of this questionable add-on speaks nothing to you, but it is nevertheless installed on your PC, then it may have entered in a software bundle. SuperWeb frequently uses this tactic to spread dubious tools, so you should pay attention to the details during the setup operations. Unfortunately, Astro Find may not be of any assistance to its clients. Instead of helping you find the necessary information faster, it may trouble the process. This adware may set a low-quality search engine as your start page. This new site may display inaccurate results while trying to boost the popularity of its partners. Astro Find may generate various pop-ups, banners, videos and in-text ads. Sometimes you may even face interstitial ads on top of the pages you want to view. These commercial materials may be responsible for potential performance issues with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. What you may experience are occasional freezes and crashes due to the multimedia elements. Since there is a chance for some of the ads to lead to unsafe locations, you should stay away from all sponsored links. The best action you can undertake is an in-depth scan with reputable security software to delete Astro Find.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Astro Find
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