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Posted: July 13, 2015

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

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:	6/10
Infected PCs:	94

First Seen:	July 13, 2015
Last Seen:	May 24, 2020
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

CouponJumbo is an extension that delivers online shopping coupons through your Web browser. As a result of the questionable benefits and probable security issues that may be introduced by these coupons, malware experts normally suggest deleting CouponJumbo for all PC users who are less than completely certain of its benefits. CouponJumbo may install itself in a format that may conceal some or all of its components, thereby necessitating using dedicated anti-adware applications to remove CouponJumbo completely from your browser.

A Jumbo Helping of Unwanted Advertisements

The relative ease of designing extensions, rather than full-blown applications for Web browsers also may have some disadvantages, such as that accessibility leading to the development of frequent iterations of Potentially Unwanted Programs. These PUPs tend to provide more disadvantages than legitimate features but may fail to utilize illicit functions that would rank them as threatening software. CouponJumbo is a variant of one of the most current families of browser PUPs, Ads By Name. Like other variants, including the equally recent DeleteAd and HugeApps advertisements, CouponJumbo advertisements may generate revenue by subjecting its users to extra advertisements.

CouponJumbo may load its advertisements in the Chrome browser automatically via HTML injection. This injection technique lets CouponJumbo insert its third-party offers into unrelated Web pages, including search engine results or shopping sites. Malware experts found that most, if not necessarily all CouponJumbo delivered advertisements included tags to let the PC's users identify them distinctly.

Like any adware, CouponJumb may load harmful advertising content without intending to do so. These advertisements, that may be formatted as free prize offers, time-limited shopping deals or even fake security alerts, may request information or try to install harmful software onto your computer. In general, unneeded interaction with such advertisements is discouraged due to the high risk of scripted attacks installing threats automatically.

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CouponJumbo is no more or less threatening to your computer than other adware products, but may, unlike some PUPs, take additional steps in preventing its uninstallation from taking place. Previous samples of CouponJumbo software may fail in loading appropriate extension entries for Chrome that would enable their identification and immediate removal. PC users trying to identify CouponJumbo by means other than its advertising symptoms may use Chrome's built-in memory monitor, their operating system's memory management utility or appropriate anti-adware programs.

CouponJumbo only modifies the Chrome browser, a characteristic typical of the advertisements By Name group of adware. Multiple reports of CouponJumb being installed automatically lead malware experts to warn that CouponJumbo may be being distributed in bundles with other software. These bundles normally are recognizable by their origins on adware-promoting websites, and may be detectable by the same anti-adware applications that could delete CouponJumbo safely.

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Threat Metric

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