Oxy Torrent

Posted: November 10, 2013

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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:	1,733
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	138,488

First Seen:	November 3, 2013
Last Seen:	October 17, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

PUP.Oxy Torrent is a Potentially Unwanted Program that's designed and distributed by Escolade Solutions, a company known for distributing PUPs and low-level PC threats that refuse to uninstall themselves. Common infection vectors for PUP.Oxy Torrent and other products by the same company tend to be non-consensual, which makes software bundles, drive-by-downloads and other aggressive software-installing strategies to be probable ways of PUP.Oxy Torrent ending up on your computer. As usual, anti-malware products can delete PUP.Oxy Torrent regardless of any other factors, assuming that appropriate steps are taken to keep all related PC threats disabled during the process.

PUP.Oxy Torrent: a Breath of Foul Air for Your Browser

PUP.Oxy Torrent has many of the traditional characteristics of risky or non-beneficial programs distributed through suspicious methods. Despite these limitations, its company actually has been quite busy producing PUPs along with PUP.Oxy Torrent. Other potentially unreliable programs by the same developers include iPumper, PileFile and FastFileDownloader. Current distribution of these PUPs is very low, and malware researchers have been unable to obtain sufficient samples to verify their payloads.

However, current research on PUP.Oxy Torrent has managed to turn up hard evidence of its ability to inject its code into other processes, with Web browsers like Chrome being especially at risk. These kinds of functions sometimes are indicative of PC threats that seek to compromise confidential login information. On the other hand, they also may be used for other possibilities, such as hijacking your browser or inserting advertisements.

PUP.Oxy Torrent's current choices in file names also may be indicative of its use of torrent networks for distribution, although malware researchers haven't finished verifying this possibility. Such risky file-downloading sources always should be used with great care – since PUP.Oxy Torrent may very well be only the most minor of the possible PC threats that could be installed.

Sending PUP.Oxy Torrent Away with Torrential Firmness

Although PUP.Oxy Torrent currently is considered a PUP, in large part due to the limited information and samples available for analysis, malware researchers consider it not unlikely that an upgrade to low or high-level PC threat could be in PUP.Oxy Torrent's near future. Regardless of any marketing or apparently helpful features PUP.Oxy Torrent may seem to offer you, all circumstantial evidence leans to PUP.Oxy Torrent being a danger to your PC that should be uninstalled without so much as a pause. In the event of any typical problems with removing PUP.Oxy Torrent, appropriate anti-malware tools can be trusted to identify and delete PUP.Oxy Torrent correctly.

Torrent networks and other download sources with questionable histories tend to be favorite distribution methods for adware and other PC threats, including unwanted programs like PUP.Oxy Torrent. However, if you research a link before trusting it, use anti-malware tools to examine any downloaded files and stay clear of file names indicative of illegal content, PUP.Oxy Torrent will not be likely to ride a torrent onto your computer.