Downloader.Picproot
Posted: June 2, 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: | 9/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 19 |
First Seen: | June 2, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | July 24, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Downloader.Picproot is a heuristic detection utilized by anti-malware scanners to detect a Trojan infection. An infection with Downloader.Picproot might lead to the download and install of other malware. Downloader.Picproot has been designed to infiltrate many computers via malicious web sites, spam e-mail campaigns and known to be related to Mal/MalitRar-B. Malware downloaded and installed by Downloader.Picproot might cause many malfunctions to your system and might generate plenty of junk files that will eat up hard drive space. Also, Downloader.Picproot is designed by cyber crooks to collect information and communicates with a remote server. Trojans such as Downloader.Picproot might also display fake security alerts, annoying pop-up ads and other types of advertising materials that might additionally slow down your PC. To remove the perilous Downloader.Picproot Trojan, computer security experts, advise you to use an up-to-date anti-malware tool
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