Techbrowsing

Posted: February 18, 2014

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

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:	5,597
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	7,591

First Seen:	February 18, 2014
Last Seen:	October 14, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Techbrowsing is a technical news website that has a history of being a destination promoted by browser hijackers and other forms of unwanted, Web browser-altering software. Although Techbrowsing doesn't provide any deliberate contact with unsafe websites, malware researchers would advise using caution with Techbrowsing's Blekko-based search engine, which, like Techbrowsing, has strong ties to Potentially Unwanted Programs. As usual, seeing your browser redirect itself to Techbrowsing is a PC security issue to be attended to by anti-malware tools that can delete the Techbrowsing hijacker safely.

When the Web-Browsing Happens Against Your Will

Techbrowsing is a website established for several years now, with a long-term history of acquiring its traffic from unorthodox methods. Standard browser hijackers appear to be the primary antagonist in this campaign, with Web browsers being modified to redirect to Techbrowsing from standard homepages or default search engines. Overall, malware experts weren't taken aback to find Techbrowsing also having close ties to the Blekko.com search engine, another site that has profited off of similar types of Potentially Unwanted Programs. Redirects to Techbrowsing or having certain browser settings locked to Techbrowsing.com are the consistent symptoms of these attacks.

Most of Techbrowsing's content consists of PC and mobile industry news scrapped from other sources, and visiting Techbrowsing shouldn't endanger your PC immediately. However, any site with a history as suspicious as Techbrowsing's shouldn't be assumed to have your safety at heart. If you do prefer to find news or conduct searches through Techbrowsing, malware experts recommend using strong browser settings and staying alert for common Web-based PC threats, such as phishing attacks.

Getting Technical About Being Free of Techbrowsing

Techbrowsing hijackers usually aren't disguised to look like normal browser add-ons, and prefer to take the low road of installing themselves without any visible components – a trait that they have in common with threats. Given the difficulty of even detecting, let alone removing a Techbrowsing hijacker, malware researchers urge any victims of Techbrowsing hijacks to make full use of their anti-malware software to stop all Techbrowsing redirects. Techbrowsing hijacks have not been tied to any one brand of browser, and seem still to be an ongoing campaign in 2014, despite the relative age of the Techbrowsing.com domain.

Sites like Techbrowsing, while not immediate threats to your PC, do require the use of suspicious and poor reputation software to get you to them, in the first place. Interaction with sites reliant on these business models is to be assumed at your own risk, and malware experts would suggest avoiding Techbrowsing and related websites whenever it's possible. Similar sites often are exposure points, willingly or otherwise, for rogue security products, phishing hoaxes and other Web-based browser attacks.

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