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Posted: July 15, 2014
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: | 14,805 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 1,302 |
First Seen: | July 14, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | October 1, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Surf Safely is adware that may sneak into your PC unnoticed when you install software bundles. Surf Safely may attach towards all Web clients that you have, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. The primary function of Surf Safely is to inject various commercial materials, which may take the shape of pop-ups, banners, interstitial ads or embedded videos. Clicking on these new ads will transfer you to partner pages, some of which may be e-commerce platforms. The developers of Surf Safely have financial incentives to cause redirections to the affiliated domains. In most cases, the PC users don't benefit from this adware because the majority of promoted sites may be unreliable or untrustworthy. The presence of the commercial materials may cause you annoyance. They may contain vivid colors or eye-catching and blinking elements, which may distract you. What is more, some marketing elements may be placed in such a way that they may cover page buttons. This questionable extension may consume much of the available RAM for its processes, which may trouble the loading of the sites or cause browser freezes. Your whole PC may start running sluggishly. Surf Safely nay try to make the coupons and exclusive offers suitable for you. The adware records your browsing and searching histories to determine your interests. Even if you decide that some ad is worth your attention, you should be careful not to install some compromised software. Surf Safely may come as an addition towards other freeware. Its description doesn't provide adequate information about the adware characteristics of this application. Instead, its developers promote Surf Safely as a security tool that can block harmful pages. However, Surf Safely cannot shield you from parasites. It is advisable to install a renowned anti-malware tool and use it to delete Surf Safely.
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(x86)%\Surf Safely\FrameworkEngine.exe
File name: FrameworkEngine.exeSize: 263.77 KB (263776 bytes)
MD5: ca04cdf0e289d2f2e5c5f6ad7741c9cf
Detection count: 84
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Surf Safely
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 14, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES%\Surf Safely\FrameworkEngine.exe
File name: FrameworkEngine.exeSize: 264.01 KB (264016 bytes)
MD5: dbb9a1fe2a66ff9fa8691d51eed9bd58
Detection count: 84
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Surf Safely
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 14, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Surf Safely\FrameworkEngine.exe
File name: FrameworkEngine.exeSize: 264.01 KB (264016 bytes)
MD5: 939ba457a662dcd13e9c18bf02693e1d
Detection count: 55
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Surf Safely
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 14, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES%\Surf Safely\FrameworkEngine.exe
File name: FrameworkEngine.exeSize: 264.93 KB (264936 bytes)
MD5: d2edb8bcac7d3614547fe2902738eb71
Detection count: 46
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Surf Safely
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 14, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES%\Surf Safely\FrameworkEngine.exe
File name: FrameworkEngine.exeSize: 264.93 KB (264936 bytes)
MD5: f751b88f74cd4adab3abb65c1b40aa0d
Detection count: 33
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Surf Safely
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 14, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Surf Safely\FrameworkEngine.exe
File name: FrameworkEngine.exeSize: 264.01 KB (264016 bytes)
MD5: c38ac6adb4cb97275ccf197188a0cfed
Detection count: 14
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Surf Safely
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 14, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES%\Surf Safely\FrameworkEngine.exe
File name: FrameworkEngine.exeSize: 264.93 KB (264936 bytes)
MD5: e07aad279dd7b0fcf13552538d7e7b31
Detection count: 9
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Surf Safely
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 14, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Surf Safely\FrameworkEngine.exe
File name: FrameworkEngine.exeSize: 264.75 KB (264752 bytes)
MD5: 971a1ec6822dd4ad033b37b001c0e2ff
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Surf Safely
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 14, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Surf Safely\FrameworkEngine.exe
File name: FrameworkEngine.exeSize: 263.77 KB (263776 bytes)
MD5: c923229ea5a58dece4ab9809f8d4f4ad
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Surf Safely
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 14, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Surf Safely\FrameworkBHO64.dll
File name: FrameworkBHO64.dllSize: 577.07 KB (577072 bytes)
MD5: 21c28f4e5fbcd1d2331477ecea3634dd
Detection count: 5
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Surf Safely
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 14, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES%\Surf Safely\FrameworkBHO.dll
File name: FrameworkBHO.dllSize: 356.58 KB (356584 bytes)
MD5: a6ead8b48272bb0528f9db0b3cac8ad1
Detection count: 5
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Surf Safely
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 14, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Surf Safely\FrameworkBHO64.dll
File name: FrameworkBHO64.dllSize: 492.64 KB (492640 bytes)
MD5: 7a9eb341e31cc9484a8eb28262a54f8b
Detection count: 3
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Surf Safely
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 14, 2014
Registry Modifications
CLSID{2139705E-FE4C-492C-B08C-77EBD02CD897}{48B32EA3-DCF8-4C2A-9649-EEB6809AFF66}{4920DE57-8B61-417F-B689-D0F3B74B3981}{49EADED5-8B21-418B-9084-91F3E94BC481}{6C85A1C9-0F93-4B46-BE67-D409D64C7E67}{6CE7A11D-0F50-4BCF-8498-4C09E84CEA67}{8167D7E6-93D6-4499-A3CF-6DDF9A716826}{81ADD76E-938C-4450-BEBF-14DFFD718226}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\38986SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{48B32EA3-DCF8-4C2A-9649-EEB6809AFF66}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{6C85A1C9-0F93-4B46-BE67-D409D64C7E67}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{6C85A1C9-0F93-4B46-BE67-D409D64C7E67}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Ext\CLSID\{6C85A1C9-0F93-4B46-BE67-D409D64C7E67}Software\Proxy\installations\Surf SafelySOFTWARE\Surf SafelySOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\38986SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{48B32EA3-DCF8-4C2A-9649-EEB6809AFF66}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Ext\CLSID\{6C85A1C9-0F93-4B46-BE67-D409D64C7E67}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Proxy\Installations\Surf SafelySOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Surf SafelyHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}38986_Surf Safely
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