Swagbucks Toolbar
Posted: May 21, 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: | 3,118 |
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Threat Level: | 5/10 |
Infected PCs: | 13,469 |
First Seen: | May 21, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | October 16, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Swagbucks Toolbar is a potentially unwanted toolbar that once installed on the vulnerable computer changes the default home page, default search engine and new tab page to Search.swagbucks.com. Swagbucks Toolbart might also be called the SBTV Toolbar or Swag Code Toolbar. Swagbucks.com enables Internet users to earn virtual currency by searching the web, shopping at their favorite retailers, engaging in other activities such as submitting polls, phone recycling, and completing special offers. Swagbucks Toolbar is owed by Prodege LLC. While the Swagbucks Toolbar itself as well as the website Search.swagbucks.com are not malicious and do not make any direct damage to the computer system, having these might be very annoying to the PC user. Whenever the web user performs any online search, he/she will get diverted to the search page of Swagbucks or any other website that is pushed by the Swagbucks Toolbar. Although the computer user might not see big differences from, for example, Google or Yahoo!, Search.swagbucks.com gives relevant search results mixed with advertised links. The two types of the links are not marked differently; therefore, the PC user might easily click on the advertised link instead of a relevant one. Prodege LLC does not take any responsibility for the content it shows, which means the computer user might click on a link that is malicious or take to a hijacked website that is designed to affect the computer with malware.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
CLSID{85675E8E-5807-456E-8005-29ECDFB5AA98}{8BDEA9D6-6F62-45EB-8EE9-8A81AF0D2F94}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\AppDataLow\Software\Swag_BucksSoftware\AppDataLow\Toolbar\RegisteredSources\CT2260173SOFTWARE\Classes\Toolbar.CT2260173Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{8bdea9d6-6f62-45eb-8ee9-8a81af0d2f94}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URLSearchHooks\{8bdea9d6-6f62-45eb-8ee9-8a81af0d2f94}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Google\Chrome\Extensions\apjkpjchfbckhjhokinlgdbmibpbbjakSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\{8bdea9d6-6f62-45eb-8ee9-8a81af0d2f94}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{8bdea9d6-6f62-45eb-8ee9-8a81af0d2f94}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\PreApproved\{85675e8e-5807-456e-8005-29ecdfb5aa98}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Swag_BucksHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Swag Bucks ToolbarSwag_Bucks Toolbar
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