PUP.Vittalia
Posted: October 15, 2013
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: | 3,784 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 8,141 |
First Seen: | October 15, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | October 15, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
PUP.Vittalia is a potentially unwanted application/browser add-on, which may proliferate using free software downloads. PUP.Vittalia may also be categorized as an adware program, which may generate and display in-text, pop-up and search advertisements when computer users are surfing the Internet. Mostly, computer users may inadvertently install PUP.Vittalia without their consent together with freeware and shareware programs downloaded from the net on free software download websites, which use download clients for managing their freeware and shareware downloads. PUP.Vittalia may lead to the web browser slow-downs, random pop-up ads, and may cause some serious privacy issues. PUP.Vittalia may use confusing techniques to raise traffic of the certain commercial website and generate revenue from the pay-per-click methods. PUP.Vittalia installs itself on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla FireFox.
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