LyricalParty

Posted: October 18, 2013

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

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:	3,888
Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	22,920

First Seen:	October 18, 2013
Last Seen:	October 15, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

LyricalParty is a Potentially Unwanted Program that claims to enhance your Web-browsing experience with the addition of lyrics being displayed alongside any music videos you might choose to watch. While LyricalParty's marketing isn't wholly fraudulent, malware researchers have noted that LyricalParty does have a history of refusing to be uninstalled easily, along with a tendency to install itself through suspicious bundles – including, at the latest date, a fake Flash updater. You should stay far from unauthorized update sources to keep LyricalParty from creeping into your computer, and if it's too late for that, a suitable anti-malware program should be able to remove LyricalParty cleanly.

LyricalParty: Having a Party in Your Browser without Your Permission

LyricalParty is a browser add-on that provides text lyrics accompaniments for video-streaming sites like YouTube. While its functions are supposedly beneficial, LyricalParty also uses distribution techniques that are anything but benevolent, and malware researchers have connected attacks distributing LyricalParty to the same kinds of fraudulent updates that, in most cases, are exploited for delivering true threats (such as banking Trojans). Recent drive-by-downloads have used fake Flash security updates to install a compromised version of Adobe's Flash Player that also bundles LyricalParty and many other programs such as Linksicle, Bomblabio, SySaver, Default Tab, the Fast Free Converter, Iminent and SweetPacks.

While most software bundles with LyricalParty installation options do allow you to opt out of them, LyricalParty's distributors appear to be banking on the fact that many PC users automatically install software that bears a trusted brand name without looking at the options overly carefully. This lets LyricalParty – and dozens of other browser add-ons – get distributed to unwilling victims without requiring the risks involved in abusing exploit kits and other high-level PC threats. Adding to this problem is LyricalParty's tendency, which is shared with other Potentially Unwanted Programs in its bundles, of trying to avoiding being uninstalled by all of the methods that would pertain to all benign browser extensions.

Turning the Music Off on the LyricalParty

With this kind of history of harmful and fraudulent distribution, LyricalParty does little to recommend itself to new users, and SpywareRemove.com malware experts strongly recommend removing LyricalParty from any PC that happens to have LyricalParty installed already. However, distribution scams aside, LyricalParty still only is a Potentially Unwanted Program and doesn't need to be considered as threatening as a Trojan, worm or virus. In spite of that, using anti-malware utilities while removing LyricalParty is advisable to make sure that all other PUPs related to LyricalParty are uninstalled, as well as all browser changes related to LyricalParty, alone.

This particular Flash distribution scam is an interesting development in that it shows that even low-level PC threats and PUPs may benefit from intentionally mislabeled 'security updates' and other software downloads. However, such techniques are very common for delivering high-level PC threats to any vulnerable computers, and, in either case, provide good reasons why you'll want to refuse updates for major brands of software that aren't from the relevant companies directly.

Technical Details

Additional Information

The following URL's were detected:

check-this.news