‘Compare and Top Deals’ Ads
Posted: December 22, 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: | 5,996 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 4,263 |
First Seen: | December 29, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | October 9, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
'Compare and Top Deals' pop-up is another annoying advertising tool that is mainly distributed in a bundle with other free software. Users may find out that an adware-related extension has been added to their main browsers like IE, Mozilla and Chrome, although 'Compare and Top Deals' pop-up may appear in other browsers as well. Once it has infiltrated your computer, 'Compare and Top Deals' pop-up may always get in your way of having a normal browsing experience. However, as useful as 'Compare and Top Deals' pop-ups may seem, computer security experts advise users not to click them as they may get redirected to possibly harmful websites. On the other hand, such redirects may attract different pieces of threats to their systems. In order to display user-relevant advertisements, 'Compare and Top Deals' may start tracking your browsing activities, and then present the information to third parties for marketing purposes.
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