DealWifi Ads
Posted: October 5, 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.
Threat Level: | 8/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 9 |
First Seen: | October 5, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | December 4, 2021 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
DealWifi is a simple adware add-on that may generate large quantities of advertising materials that you may see in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. This behavior is not unique – in fact, the cyberspace is currently overwhelmed with similar tools. Most of them are promoted as 'shopping optimizers,' and many PC users are already aware that installing these plugins may not be a good idea. In an effort to reach the systems of its clients, DealWifi offers something different. It claims that the people who install it will be able to use free WiFi. In fact, this feature doesn't work – you will most likely see various errors, but you will certainly be unable to connect to the promised free network. Just like any regular adware, DealWifi may insert user-relevant ads to the majority of webpages. The commercial materials may take different forms: they may come as pop-ups, banners, interstitial ads that cover the whole page, or in-text ads that may trigger if you only hover your mouse cursor over them. The displayed coupons and discounts may be relevant to your personal interests because they are based on the sites that you have viewed recently. Clicking on the ads will take you to third-party affiliate domains, and the people behind this add-on will receive pay-per-click commissions. The fact that they benefit doesn't mean that so will you. It is possible for some of the ads to redirect you to potentially dangerous parts of the web, so you should be extremely careful. Even if you ignore the ads, you may still notice annoying performance issues such as occasional freezes and crashes. You should not keep such misleading application that may cause you trouble, so you should use anti-malware software to remove it from your system.
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