Coupon Genie
Posted: April 8, 2013
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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: | 31 |
First Seen: | April 8, 2013 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Coupon Genie is an adware program that is created by '215 Apps'. Coupon Genie displays offer coupons, pop-up advertisements and sponsored links via a pop-up box on Walmart, Amazon, Ebay and other online shopping websites that are visited by web users. These pop-up advertisements will be displayed as boxes, which contain a variety of coupons that are available or as underlined keywords, which, when clicked, will show a pop-up advertisement that declares it is sent to the victimized PC user by Coupon Genie. Coupon Genie is an extension for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that is commonly inserted when the computer user installs other free software products. When the Internet user installs these free software products, they will also install Coupon Genie on the infected computer system. Once installed, Coupon Genie will show a box including associated keyword suggestions, ads and sponsored links, in the right top part of the attacked web browser, whenever the PC user will browse Best Buy, Expedia, Facebook or any other similar websites.
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