Solid Savings
Posted: March 14, 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: | 14,716 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 3,590 |
First Seen: | March 14, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | October 17, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Solid Savings is an adware application/browser add-on that displays numerous coupons, offers and special deals that supposedly save PC users' money while they are shopping online. Solid Savings claims it works with such companies like Expedia, Toysrus, kmart, Zales and many other. The company that owes Solid Savings is 215Apps (Innovative Apps), known to be a developer of Savings Vault, Deals Plugin, Instant Savings App and many other browser extensions. Although Solid Savings can be downloaded from its official website, computer users almost never do this. Usually Solid Savings is spread using deceptive methods, such as packing it together with other applications such as a free video file converter. After Solid Savings is installed automatically, it changes the websites you visit and flood a screen of a targeted PC numerous with pop-up advertisements.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
CLSID{11111111-1111-1111-1111-110211621178}{22222222-2222-2222-2222-220222622278}{44444444-4444-4444-4444-440244624478}{55555555-5555-5555-5555-550255625578}{66666666-6666-6666-6666-660266626678}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\AppDataLow\Software\Solid SavingsSOFTWARE\Classes\CrossriderApp0026278.BHOSOFTWARE\Classes\CrossriderApp0026278.BHO.1SOFTWARE\Classes\CrossriderApp0026278.SandboxSOFTWARE\Classes\CrossriderApp0026278.Sandbox.1Software\Cr_Installer\26278Software\InstalledBrowserExtensions\215 Apps\26278SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\Updater26278.exeSOFTWARE\Proxy\Installations\Solid SavingsSOFTWARE\Solid SavingsSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{11111111-1111-1111-1111-110211621178}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{21111111-1111-1111-1111-110211621178}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\Solid Savings_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\Solid Savings_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{11111111-1111-1111-1111-110211621178}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Ext\CLSID\{11111111-1111-1111-1111-110211621178}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Proxy\Installations\Solid SavingsSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Solid SavingsHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Solid Savings
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