Crunch Travel Ads
Posted: January 9, 2016
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: | 16 |
First Seen: | January 9, 2016 |
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Last Seen: | January 10, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Crunch Travel is adware that is remarkably similar to Ahoy Traveler. This tool may inject a series of commercial materials straight into your browser. Crunch Travel may be applied to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Moreover, Crunch Travel doesn't affect your default browsers solely but all available Web clients. Crunch Travel may be downloaded easily from its official site, but hardly anyone does so. The developers of the adware prefer to spread it in a set with other free applications, which may be legit. They use this method, which is called 'bundling,' because it often confuses the less vigilant users. If they don't install the newly downloaded program via the 'Advanced' path, they may load Crunch Travel without knowing it. The adware may fill your browsers with pop-ups, banners, blinking materials and in-text ads quickly. You also may encounter interstitial ads that may cover almost the whole screen. These new ads may create problems for the Web clients frequently. Some of them may use a lot of resources, which may lead to slower operating speed or annoying and unprovoked freezes for a few seconds. You may be surprised that not all of the advertised products are related to traveling. The majority of ads are based on your surfing cookies. For example, if you visit sites for books or simply type some titles in the search engines, then the pop-ups may start promoting books instead of tickets. While some offers may seem very good, the experts advise you to be careful. In some cases, the links may not open safe sites but some compromised platforms that host Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP) or even threats. Staying away from the partner sites may protect you in the short term, but as the time passes the ads may become very annoying to you. To clean your browsers wholly, you should use a dedicated anti-malware application.
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