IsoBuster Toolbar
Posted: June 11, 2013
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: | 1,695 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 80,901 |
First Seen: | June 11, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | October 17, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The IsoBuster Toolbar is an optional extra for IsoBuster, a utility designed for retrieving deleted files and data from damaged hard drives. Although IsoBuster is a legitimate application, SpywareRemove.com malware experts consider the IsoBuster Toolbar to be a Potentially Unwanted Program and are unhappy to note that the IsoBuster Toolbar has ties to Conduit Ltd, a company known for its history of designing unwanted browser plugins. If you install IsoBuster without peering through its options carefully, the IsoBuster Toolbar will take control of your Firefox and Chrome browsers, thereby making negative changes to your homepage, Web searches and related Web-browsing activities. Because the IsoBuster Toolbar (as is common for Conduit toolbars) may try to resist being deleted, you should be ready to use anti-malware programs to delete the IsoBuster Toolbar and reverse its browser changes.
When Good Software Busts Your Browser as a Side Effect
The IsoBuster Toolbar is evidence of one of the most widely-distributed trends in Conduit Potentially Unwanted Programs: that of bundling a semi-malicious or undesirable browser plugin with a completely ordinary and useful program. In most cases, this only happens when an unofficial site begins creating its own software packages that include PUPs like IsoBuster Toolbar, but the IsoBuster Toolbar is distributed with the original installer for IsoBuster. On the other hand, IsoBuster Toolbar remains an optional inclusion, which makes the importance of examining installer options closely only more obvious than ever.
Once the IsoBuster Toolbar is installed with IsoBuster, the IsoBuster Toolbar will perform functions that are unrelated to data recovery, such as setting your homepage to a Conduit-affiliated website or redirecting your searches. These issues affect your browsers regardless of brand, albeit only for the Windows OS. Some other browser add-ons also related to Conduit Ltd include Internet Helper Toolbar, Findr Toolbar and Search, KeyBar Toolbar, Produtools, Vaf Music Toolbar, Vuze Toolbar, FLV Runner Toolbar, Delta Search Toolbar, WiseConvert Community Toolbar and Adware.2YourFace.
Recovering Your Browser Control from a File Recovery Program
Since IsoBuster Toolbar usually is installed manually, but under circumstances that make it unclear that IsoBuster Toolbar is non-beneficial for your browser, a bare minimum of awareness while installing software will keep your computer IsoBuster Toolbar-free. Unhappily, there have been reports of many instances of the IsoBuster Toolbar trying to resist being uninstalled, which is a problem you easily can avoid if you have any access to a halfway competent anti-malware program.
Sites promoted by the IsoBuster Toolbar through browser redirects and other methods, while not necessarily screened extensively for safety, are not verified as being dangerous to your PC. Currently SpywareRemove.com malware research team rates the IsoBuster Toolbar as a Potentially Unwanted Program in general or, at worst, as a low-level threat.
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