OneSoftPerDay

Posted: July 16, 2014

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:	9,635
Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	5,307

First Seen:	July 16, 2014
Last Seen:	October 9, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

OneSoftPerDay, sometimes identified as a variant of EoRezo adware, is a browser add-on used for displaying advertisements automatically, and in potentially intrusive formats. Since malware researchers frequently link adware advertisements to both security problems and performance issues, you should consider the removal of OneSoftPerDay by any means required, unless you have specific reasons for not doing so. Incomplete removal of OneSoftPerDay may allow its advertisements to continue loading, which can be prevented by using anti-adware products to uninstall OneSoftPerDay, along with any settings changes linked to this Potentially Unwanted Programs.

OneSoftPerDay: A Shill for Far More than One Advertiser Per Day

While profiting from advertising traffic is an entirely legitimate financial strategy, some third parties, such as OneSoftPerDay's company, fail to show the necessary restraint to make it a reputable, long-term business plan. With confirmed but non-consensual distribution in July of this year, OneSoftPerDay may be installed automatically, whether OneSoftPerDay accomplishes this via bundle installers, browser exploits, fraudulent updates or other methods. At this time, malware experts rate bundles as the most probable means for distributing OneSoftPerDay, which may include itself in installers for unrelated, third-party products. These bundles tend to be particularly prominent on free software sites, illegal download sources and torrent networks.

OneSoftPerDay advertisements use the format of pop-ups, which, frequently, load into the upper right corner of your default Web browser. These advertisements may block a website's content, ignore standard advertisement-management settings, or even exposure you to potential security risks. Malware experts also have found some evidence of OneSoftPerDay conducting basic tracking functions to monitor the advertisement interactions of its users, although OneSoftPerDay doesn't appear to harvest confidential information (passwords and other sensitive data).

Getting Hard on a Soft Source of Browser Advertisements

OneSoftPerDay shares the same category as most adware: a Potentially Unwanted Program. Although PUPs shouldn't be confused with threats, OneSoftPerDay's advertisements may put you at risk for exposure to higher-level PC threats than itself. OneSoftPerDay advertisements may display repetitively on unrelated Web pages, which also may be responsible for a variety of performance and site accessibility problems for any Web browser. Although it may be attractive to remove OneSoftPerDay by yourself or change to a browser unaffected by OneSoftPerDay, deleting OneSoftPerDay with anti-adware tools is the most reliable way to revert all problems associated with this add-on.

PC users who install software from unconfirmed sources or launch files without scanning them for threats are at a particular risk for being exposed to OneSoftPerDay, along with many, equally invasive PUPs. While OneSoftPerDay's advertisements may supposedly be benign, at the end of the day, malware researchers find no reason for encouraging a perpetual exposure to pop-up advertisements.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\ONESOFTPERDAYSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\ONESOFTPERDAY

Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ONESOFTPERDAY%LOCALAPPDATA%\OneSoftPerDay%PROGRAMFILES%\OneSoftPerDay%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\OneSoftPerDay%TEMP%\OneSoftPerDay