Dragon Branch Ads
Posted: April 21, 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: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 918 |
First Seen: | April 20, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | May 16, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Dragon Branch is detected as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). Customarily, PUPs such as Dragon Branch are distributed using a variety of questionable marketing methods. Users may acquire Dragon Branch via freeware downloads or by downloading it themselves. Either way, a PUP that exhibits adware capabilities such as Dragon Branch is not recommended to be kept on your computer. Typically, PUPs like Dragon Branch are known to pretend to offer useful features related to your online experience, but in reality, they are not as good as advertised. Dragon Branch starts collecting information related to your online activities in order to create user-relevant advertisements and thus lure users into clicking them. When clicked on, ads by Dragon Branch redirect you to third-party websites that might promote questionable content or that are unreliable.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
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