Discretesearch.com
Posted: December 7, 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.
Ranking: | 14,960 |
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Threat Level: | 5/10 |
Infected PCs: | 756 |
First Seen: | December 7, 2016 |
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Last Seen: | September 22, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Discretesearch.com is a search engine that offers users the ability to keep their searches hidden from the spying eyes of major search aggregators like Google, Bing and Yahoo. According to the owners of Discretesearch.com, every search query you run through popular search engines is logged and may be used for marketing purposes such as improving the quality of the ads you see while browsing the Web. You may see this is a bad thing, but if you think more about it, you'll realize that avoiding online ads is nearly impossible, and having these ads tailored according to your interests and desired is a rather positive change. However, i you prefer to keep your searches hidden for some reason, then Discretesearch.com might indeed be the page you are looking for. However, you should keep in mind that the search results you'll get with Discretesearch.com's services may be different from the ones you'd usually see. Furthermore, the search results page of Discretesearch.com may include sponsored advertisements and other marketing content, which is undesirable, to say the least.
Apart from being filled with some ads, the Discretesearch.com page also may be affiliated with a hijacking Web browser extension whose installation may modify your Web browser's settings by replacing your default new tab page and search provider with Discretesearch.com. If you authorize this installation's extension unknowingly, you may end up seeing Discretesearch.com in your Web browser even though you don't recall visiting this page ever before. If this is the scenario you are experiencing, then we suggest that you review your list of installed browser extensions and remove any unknown entries. If this does not solve the issue, then there's an even easier method – just run a reputable anti-malware scanner, and it should be able to identify and remove any software that may be linked to Discretesearch.com's unwelcome presence in your browser's configuration.
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