Startpageing123.com
Posted: January 20, 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.
Ranking: | 4,050 |
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Threat Level: | 5/10 |
Infected PCs: | 43,631 |
First Seen: | January 20, 2017 |
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Last Seen: | October 16, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Startpageing123.com is a search engine that may pop up in your Web browser on a regular basis, even though you never intended to visit this page. This weird event may happen because the Startpageing123.com page may rely on multiple browser hijackers to boost its traffic statistics drastically by forcing affected Web browsers to load Startpageing123.com whenever certain actions are executed automatically. It is not uncommon for browser hijackers like the ones linked to Startpageing123.com, to modify the default homepage or new tab page to Startpageing123.com, therefore ensuring that the affected user will end up visiting Startpageing123.com tens of times a day. The good news is that this behavior is nothing more than annoying, and there's not a chance of being exposed to threats by visiting Startpageing123.com. However, since this page is not associated with a major company, there's no way to guarantee that its contents will not change in the future. We advise our readers to stick to using a reputable search service that has proven its credibility over the years.
The Startpageing123.com hijackers are likely to be installed as a Web browser extension, which asks for the user's authorization to tamper with the Web browser's settings. As you can probably guess, the best way to dispose of the Startpageing123.com extension and the settings it uses is to uninstall the unwanted add-on from your Web browser's settings. However, in some cases, the Startpageing123.com hijacker may work by modifying your Web browser's shortcut, so that the Startpageing123.com page will be opened whenever you start your Web browser. This problem can be resolved by simply deleting the old shortcut to your Web browser and creating a new one. If Startpageing123.com persists even after the extension has been uninstalled, it is recommended to run an anti-malware software suite, which should detect and erase the intrusive hijacker automatically.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\startpageing123SoftwareSOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\startpageing123Software
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