Citysearch Toolbar
Posted: April 29, 2014
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: | 13,388 |
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Threat Level: | 5/10 |
Infected PCs: | 1,602 |
First Seen: | April 29, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | September 24, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Citysearch Toolbar is an unwanted browser extension, which may be installed on the Web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome. Citysearch Toolbar may promote itself as a program that helps PC users save time and money while shopping online. Citysearch Toolbar may appear as a useful application but, in truth, it may use tricky techniques to integrate itself into the PC. Citysearch Toolbar may usually propagate and be installed on the computer system through packed free software without the PC user's permission or as an optional application packaged with freeware. Once Citysearch Toolbar is installed on the computer, it may modify the default homepage and search engine or a new tab window with a sponsored website. Citysearch Toolbar may also insert and show unwanted pop-up ads in search results of any major search engine. Citysearch Toolbar may result in continuous browser diversions to unwanted websites produced to possibly gain benefit from clicks on ads and raised Internet traffic.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{1171EE0B-6676-456A-A11F-E52A553BAFDE}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{27443DAE-6160-425F-A1EA-A3C2DA47EDC5}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{BDFB9044-5CBA-40DB-B81C-86B23DD9EF53}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser\{BDFB9044-5CBA-40DB-B81C-86B23DD9EF53}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\{bdfb9044-5cba-40db-b81c-86b23dd9ef53}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URLSearchHooks\{b383c591-14a2-447a-832e-6885463762dc}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{4588EDA6-6510-4CDB-89E3-865648251134}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\{bdfb9044-5cba-40db-b81c-86b23dd9ef53}
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