Searchsterjosoft.com
Posted: February 3, 2017
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.
Threat Level: | 5/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 14 |
First Seen: | February 3, 2017 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Searchsterjosoft.com is a search engine that may appear in your Web browser out of nowhere. Although this event may seem unexplainable, we assure you that if you see the Searchsterjosoft.com page in your Web browser, there's a good reason why this happens. Often, pages like Searchsterjosoft.com are promoted via browser hijackers- small programs whose installation is meant to change the settings of the user's Web browser so that it will redirect them to a certain page. This is the case with Searchsterjosoft.com. Users who come across this page whenever they attempt to load their homepage or open a new tab may be experiencing this minor issue because they authorized the installation of a browser hijacking application recently.
Regardless of their scary-sounding name, browser hijackers are not threatening under any circumstances. The only thing they are capable of doing is modifying the Web browser's homepage, new tab page or default search engine, therefore allowing the owners of pages like Searchsterjosoft.com to boost their website's traffic significantly by forcing users to visit them on a regular basis. The Searchsterjosoft.com page does not host any suspicious content and, in fact, it can serve as a functional search engine since it redirects all search queries to the Yahoo Search. In addition to the search feature, Searchsterjosoft.com also sports a collection of quick links to popular websites like Netflix, Amazon, Gmail, Facebook and others.
Although having Searchsterjosoft.com set as your default new tab page is not a major issue, some users might not be happy with this change, and they might be eager to leave this issue behind them as soon as possible. Users who wish to dispose of Searchsterjosoft.com and the browser hijacker that brought it to their Web browser should check if they have any unnecessary or unknown browser extensions running, and remove the suspicious entries. If this does not solve the problem, then a reliable computer security software should be able to identify the intruder and dispose of it.
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