MindDabble Toolbar
Posted: June 28, 2013
Threat Metric
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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: | 14,738 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 689 |
First Seen: | June 28, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | October 14, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
MindDabble is a browser hijacker, which is advertised via other freeware downloads (video recording/streaming, download-managers or PDF creators) that had bundled into their installation MindDabble, and once installed on an affected computer, it will insert the MindDabble Toolbar, and change the default browser homepage and default search engine to Mywebsearch.com. Mywebsearch will display annoying pop-up advertisements and sponsored links in search results of any legal search engine, and may gather search terms from a victimized Internet user's search queries. The MindDabble Toolbar is used to raise traffic of the certain website by using blackhat SEO and make money from click fraud. MindDabble is also categorized as a PUP (potentially unwanted program). MindDabble is also bundled within the custom installer on many download websites, such as CNET, Brothersoft or Softonic, so if the PC user has downloaded an application from these websites, MindDabble might have been installed during the application setup process.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
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