MyStart by Incredimail

Posted: January 29, 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:	3,224
Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	13,657

First Seen:	January 29, 2013
Last Seen:	October 14, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

MyStart by Incredimail is an adware program that's distributed with Incredimail, an e-mail management program that's a close relative of Incredibar (a similar add-on that also is associated with MyStart). While the Incredimail company claims that MyStart is a useful and optional search add-on, MyStart doesn't display any beneficial features for your browser and actually takes control of your web-browsing program out of your hands. Although MyStart by Incredimail only qualifies as a very minor danger to your PC, computer users have the ability to remove MyStart and any associated programs (such as Incredimail) with suitable anti-malware software-based solutions.

When Your Only Choice of Starting Pages Becomes MyStart by Incredimail

In some cases, MyStart also may be installed by downloads that are distributed as fake software updates (typically codecs for audio/video players). No matter how MyStart by Incredimail gets on your computer, MyStart installs itself to popular browsers (including Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome) and locks itself as your browser's homepage. Additionally, MyStart also hijacks your web searches for the purpose of displaying advertisements. Finally, MyStart may use up system resources constantly and, as a result, may degrade your PC's performance.

Getting Back to an Online Starting Point of Your Own Devising

Since MyStart will, like many adware programs, resist being removed and, in many cases, may not appear in your Control Panel as an uninstallable application, Spywareremove.com malware research team suggests the use of anti-malware products for ridding your PC of MyStart. Updating your browser, changing its settings or changing browsers entirely may be helpful against some infection vectors for MyStart, but shouldn't be considered an easy way to delete MyStart.

However, any competent brand of anti-malware scanner should be able to delete MyStart, which lacks the advanced defenses that Spywareremove.com malware experts have found in rootkits, banking Trojans and other sophisticated forms of malware. The same system scans also should be used to remove any affiliated programs, such as Incredimail or Incredibar.

If you don't remove MyStart promptly and completely, your PC may experience a range of malfunctions from MyStart's excessive usage of resources like RAM, as well as from your inability to control which websites your browser loads. Spywareremove.com malware experts also are forced to warn against any interaction with advertisements that are promoted by MyStart, which have a chance of promoting malicious content.

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Additional Information

The following URL's were detected:

awesomenewspush.com