Money Viking Ads
Posted: November 23, 2015
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.
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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: | 11,016 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 6,581 |
First Seen: | November 20, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | October 1, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Money Viking is an ad-oriented Web plugin that is developed and distributed by the notorious company SuperWeb LLC. This program is not the right tool to optimize your online shopping. In fact, the problems with it begin with the applied delivery methods. SuperWeb LLC has chosen this name for the product intentionally as this way it is very hard to find information about it online. It is difficult to locate the official website of Money Viking, and even if you manage to do it, you will be surprised to find that the download button doesn't work. This adware may not travel alone in the cyberspace but in bundles with other programs. As a result, some PC users may install it against their will.
The changes that Money Viking may make in the browsers are easy to spot. As soon as you launch Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer, you may see a different homepage than the one you have set. The SuperWeb LLC software may make suspicious search platforms as starting sites in order to boost incoming Web traffic to its partners. The way of functioning of these unreliable search engines is simple – they may display sponsored links in the first positions. The experts recommend ignoring such pages for the sake of maintaining the security of the PC. For the same reason, you should not click on the numerous pop-ups, banners and interstitial ads that Money Viking inserts. The problem with them is that they may redirect to third-party pages with unverified legitimacy. Of course, it is possible the mere existence of unrequested commercial materials to cause annoyance because they come in large quantities. The fact that some ads may contain multimedia elements may be the reason for sporadic freezes or crashes of Web clients, so you should consider deleting the adware.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
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