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Posted: May 22, 2015
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: | 2,711 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 8,867 |
First Seen: | March 19, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | October 17, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
CrushArcade is classified as an adware-laced platform that offers a variety of Flash games. Often, users may accidentally install CrushArcade as it is bundled with other free applications or download it themselves from the official website at crusharcade.com. Regardless of the means of distribution, CrushArcade is known to promote intrusive commercial advertisements that might cause your browser to behave differently, alter its settings and make it slower. CrushArcade not only affects your web browsers, but also affect your entire system as well and cause it to decrease performance significantly. Your computer may become rather sluggish due to the excessive amounts of advertisements that are displayed by CrushArcade, as they consume plenty of CPU. It is not advised to keep CrushArcade installed on your computer, use a powerful anti-malware tool instead to remove the infection.
Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:\??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\Drivers\CatWSw864.sys
File name: CatWSw864.sysSize: 42.39 KB (42392 bytes)
MD5: 467035ae95408cd5b2a0ee2a8eb1e7c5
Detection count: 2,277
File type: System file
Mime Type: unknown/sys
Path: \??\C:\WINDOWS\system32\Drivers
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 4, 2018
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{08A07CDB-75BF-4D21-8755-2D196B69DFB6}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{410F2BF7-DF68-4A7C-9485-C6836BADDDCE}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{EF99CC33-CE7F-4785-937C-E986AEA07E3E}Software\MOZILLA\FIREFOX\EXTENSIONS\{d817c7c7-d36c-470a-8e7a-2e38b673d5d3}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{410F2BF7-DF68-4A7C-9485-C6836BADDDCE}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}CrushArcade
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