MyInfotopia

Posted: December 12, 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:	10,406
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	1,391

First Seen:	December 12, 2013
Last Seen:	October 15, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

MyInfotopia is an adware extension for the Chrome Web browser. Adware programs like MyInfotopia often try to market their 'features' as being in your favor, but in the case of MyInfotopia and many similar products, their advertisements have minimal discernible advantages. Along with the distinct lack of benefits, malware researchers warn that MyInfotopia also may be a security problem, even while the responsible company claims to lack any responsibility for harm that may come to your PC through its product's advertisements. MyInfotopia may not be a Trojan, but deleting MyInfotopia still should be your first, last and only reaction to seeing its pop-ups, injected banners or other advertisements.

Why MyInfotopia's Information Utopia is Built on a Foundation of Advertisements

One of the rare adware programs that are limited to affecting Chrome, MyInfotopia is marketed as a product that 'improves your Web browsing experience,' even though its practical functions are limited to finding new ways to display advertisements – and tracking which sites you visit. Data tracked by MyInfotopia may include such information as your Web searches, which sites you load, how long you stay on any specific site and which advertisements you've already seen. Although MyInfotopia's data-tracking behavior doesn't steal personal information like account names, MyInfotopia may harm your browser's performance and may be invasive.

However, broad its tracking functions might be, MyInfotopia's most identifiable functions always are those related to its advertisements. Examples of MyInfotopia advertisements may include:

So-called 'transitional' or 'interstitial' advertisements that pause the loading of an unrelated site to force you to view an advertisement beforehand.
Injected hyperlinks for advertisements, sometimes referred to as inline text advertisements.
Injected banners and similar graphical advertisements.
Sponsored search results, which may be viewable above or alongside the actual search results of a search engine.

Getting Your Info – without Getting It the Way that MyInfotopia Wants It

MyInfotopia doesn't provide any real benefits to your browser that could counteract the simple irritation and performance problems that are almost certain to arise from its advertising features. Even more troublingly, MyInfotopia claims not to be responsible for any harm that your PC might suffer from its advertisements while malware experts simultaneously monitor ongoing reports of drive-by-downloads for Trojans and other PC threats exploiting adware-based advertisement networks. If you value the safety, stability and performance of your Web browser, you should make a high priority out of deleting MyInfotopia.

Anti-malware applications are essential both for MyInfotopia's removal and for blocking any attempts at installing MyInfotopia that may be less than honest. Software-bundling utilities often are the ultimate culprits behind the distribution of adware, and practicing safe browsing habits can go a long way to preventing these bundles from infiltrating your computer. Most bundlers are identifiable by good anti-malware products, either inherently (in the case of well-known bundle utilities) or by their payloads, like MyInfotopia.

MyInfotopia

Threat Metric

Why MyInfotopia's Information Utopia is Built on a Foundation of Advertisements

Getting Your Info – without Getting It the Way that MyInfotopia Wants It

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