Internet Speed Pilot
Posted: October 17, 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.
Threat Level: | 5/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 70 |
First Seen: | October 16, 2016 |
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Last Seen: | August 2, 2020 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Internet Speed Pilot is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that may be used to bring traffic to 'search.internetspeedpilot.com' and 'free.internetspeedpilot.com,' two low-quality search engines maintained by Safer Browser. The Internet Speed Pilot browser extension is used to provide users with quick access to a utility that allows them to measure their Internet speed and ping. While this may seem a useful feature, users who are keen to install the Internet Speed Pilot should know that there are many Web-based services that provide the same functionality without requiring the installation of 3rd-party software on the user's computer.
The Internet Speed Pilot doesn't just lack valuable features – its installation also may force the system default Web browser to use 'search.internetspeedpilot.com' or 'free.internetspeedpilot.com' as the default new tab page. Both of these pages lead to the same search engine, which delivers results via the Yahoo Search API.
Although neither the Internet Speed Pilot nor the search engines it is linked to are classified as threatening, we advise users to think twice whether they'd like to install and use the Internet Speed Pilot's services. As we already said, multiple Web-based services offer to test the user's Internet speeds, and they don't require the installation of any additional software or browser extensions. If you have the Internet Speed Pilot extension installed and it has modified new tab page already, then it might be a good idea to reconsider your decision to install this application. If you wish to uninstall the Internet Speed Pilot, you can do this from the list of installed Web browser extensions.
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