PUP.PCMega
Posted: January 3, 2014
Threat Metric
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: | 3,025 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 4,886 |
First Seen: | January 8, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | October 16, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
PUP.PCMega is known to be a potentially unwanted application that may show unwanted pop-up advertisements and banners carrying various discount coupons, offers and deals when PC users are browsing online shopping websites or any other websites. PUP.PCMega may install itself in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome without the computer user's authorization. PUP.PCMega may be usually spread and access the computer system through bundled free programs that PC users can download from the Internet. When the computer user chooses to install free software, it might include additional toolbars, browser extensions, plug-ins or add-ons embedded into the installation wizard. These additional apps, in this case PUP.PCMega, might be marked as optional tools, but if the computer user does not uncheck a check box, which offers to include extra applications, he may end up with undesired system modifications. PUP.PCMegamay keep track of the PC user's surfing habits and forward gathered data to third-parties for the purpose of targeted marketing.
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