Deals Add-on
Posted: January 28, 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: | 10,413 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 1,899 |
First Seen: | January 28, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | September 25, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Deals Add-on is adware that may display unwanted pop-up ads when computer users are shopping online. Deals Add-on may integrate itself on Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome Web browsers. Deals Add-on may be usually delivered and invade the PC through packaged free software. When the PC user chooses to install a certain free app, it may include additional toolbars, plug-ins, browser extensions and add-ons in installation wizard. These additional apps, in this case Deals Add-on, may be marked as optional programs, but if the PC user does not take a check box off for adding them, he may end up with unpleasant system modifications. Deals Add-on may alter the default browser settings. Deals Add-on may forcibly redirect PC users to unknown websites that were designed possibly to make money from ad clicks and increased website traffic.
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