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Jazz Spot Ads

Posted: November 25, 2015

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 47
First Seen: November 25, 2015
Last Seen: January 10, 2019
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Jazz Spot is an ad-supported extension that may fill your browser with tons of unwanted commercial materials. This adware may not enter automatically, but it tries to receive it in a pretty confusing way. It doesn't reach the PCs of its clients alone. Instead, it may travel as a bonus component to third-party freeware. The fact that some users may ignore the details or prefer to load software through the 'Quick' menu is the reason they may not notice Jazz Spot. Once the adware becomes part of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, the signs of its presence would be clearly visible. The plugin may display additional pop-ups, banners, multimedia ads of all kinds, in-text ads and screen-wide interstitial ads. Besides them, you may notice a tiny slogan that says 'Powered by Jazz Spot' or simply 'Ads by Jazz Spot.' You can use it to distinguish the ads generated by the adware from other, page-based ones. The experts' advice is to ignore them because they may be unreliable.

Companies that create ad-oriented plugins benefit from referral commissions, which they receive for each page impression they create. Their efforts may be focused on increasing the number of partner sites and not on checking if they are safe. As a result, the commercial materials by Jazz Spot may occasionally transfer you to platforms involved in hoaxes or that host threatening software. If you avoid the ads, it may not be enough to spare you all trouble because their persistence may cause annoyance. What is more, the multimedia elements in the ads may seize a lot of system resources, which may slow the operating speed of your browser. As most types of adware, Jazz Spot may be hard to remove manually, so you should use special security software.

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Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Jazz Spot%Temp%\Jazz Spot
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