Savings Shield
Posted: October 1, 2013
Threat Metric
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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.
Threat Level: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 49 |
First Seen: | October 1, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | January 19, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Savings Shield is an adware program that may display pop-up advertisements, offers, coupons, and sponsored links via a pop-up box on Amazon, Walmart, Ebay and other shopping websites that web users are visiting. Savings Shield pop-up advertisements may be displayed as boxes, which encompass a variety of coupons that are available or as underlined keywords, which when clicked may show a pop-up advertisement that declares it is sent to an affected computer user by Savings Shield. Savings Shield is an unwanted extension for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that may be usually inserted when the Internet user installs other free applications, such as video recording/streaming, download managers or PDF creators, that had packed into their installation Savings Shield. When the PC user installs these free applications, they may also install Savings Shield. When installed on the targeted PC, whenever the computer user will visit Best Buy, Expedia, Facebook or any other similar websites, Savings Shield may show a 'See Similar' button on product images, which when clicked may display pop-up ads by Savings Shield. Savings Shield may also display advertising banners on the websites that computer users are visiting, and as they surf the Internet, Savings Shield may show coupons and other deals available on numerous websites.
Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:%PROGRAMFILES%\Savings Shield\Savings Shield-bho64.dll
File name: Savings Shield-bho64.dllSize: 944.52 KB (944520 bytes)
MD5: b5adac7acba3a24bff5df75c2e495d85
Detection count: 99
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Savings Shield
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: October 2, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\Savings Shield\Savings Shield-bho.dll
File name: Savings Shield-bho.dllSize: 602.5 KB (602504 bytes)
MD5: 0849765860f8ceefc677ac170f9ce510
Detection count: 19
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Savings Shield
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: October 2, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\Savings Shield\SavingsShield.exe
File name: SavingsShield.exeSize: 3.87 MB (3872184 bytes)
MD5: fab073429fcad69bdf76b67740d76458
Detection count: 9
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Savings Shield
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: October 2, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\Savings Shield\Savings Shield-codedownloader.exe
File name: Savings Shield-codedownloader.exeSize: 491.4 KB (491400 bytes)
MD5: c784acf681210e5ac16d257bc9382670
Detection count: 4
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Savings Shield
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: October 2, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\Savings Shield\Savings Shield-bg.exe
File name: Savings Shield-bg.exeSize: 742.28 KB (742280 bytes)
MD5: 4ce786b992e80bef69f8756444485c8f
Detection count: 3
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Savings Shield
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: October 2, 2013
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Savings ShieldSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Savings Shield
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