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Posted: July 14, 2015

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.

Threat Level:	8/10
Infected PCs:	37

First Seen:	July 14, 2015
Last Seen:	January 8, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

TorqueChallenger is an adware product that may use your Web browser to deliver advertisements, with the corresponding Web traffic generating revenue for its owners. Since TorqueChallenger may deliver harmful advertising or advertising that may produce negative side effects for your browser, malware experts suggest deleting TorqueChallenger as a default stance. However, deleting TorqueChallenger or other adware by means other than specialized anti-adware products may cause other, unwanted side effects for your Web-browsing experience, and isn't recommended as a first resort

Why Your Browser's Being Twisted into Advertisements

TorqueChallenger is a particular recent adware program whose distribution malware experts managed to verify in mid-July of 2015. Despite the extension being new adware, TorqueChallenger also shows many of the characteristics that malware analysts already have seen in previous adware products, particularly browser add-ons from the Ads By Name family. Other, similar browser add-ons exhibiting identical traits as TorqueChallenger include AdFreeApp, DeleteAd, HugeApps Ads and Coupon Titan Ads.

Although its installation methods have yet to be confirmed, malware analysts have seen few indications of TorqueChallenger being installed with full consent. This caveat leads to the conclusion that threatening software or third-party bundles also may be involving themselves in its distribution. Regardless of the means of its introduction to the affected PC, once installed, TorqueChallenger may modify your browser for delivering its advertisements.

TorqueChallenger may deliver its advertisements via graphical thumbnails, banners, and other elements injected into your Web pages when your browser loads them. Although malware analysts found control options for disabling TorqueChallenger-based advertisements temporarily, they found no global options for doing so. As a result, TorqueChallenger may inadvertently provide the usual symptoms associated with unwanted adware, such poor loading times, problems with accessing navigation menus or even possible exposure to harmful advertisement content.

Challenging the Advertisements that Challenge Your Browser

TorqueChallenger does have a confirmed history of sometimes delivering harmful advertisements, but is not when analyzed independently, a threatening program. However, even non-threatening browser extensions should be examined for the cost-benefit ratios and removed whenever appropriate for maintaining your overall Web-browsing quality of life. Hostile advertisements may use script-based exploits and other content to attack your PC, and never should be interacted with if the interaction is avoidable.

Like all members of the Ads By Name category of adware, TorqueChallenger advertisements, is most likely to modify the Chrome browser and has no confirmed compatibility with other browsers. Despite that fact, any PC user who's installed TorqueChallenger unintentionally should consider using anti-adware tools to remove TorqueChallenger safely from their machines. Most installations of TorqueChallenger may fail in offering standard extension entries that would let users identify it in a browser's normal settings menu, and may continue to load their advertisements even after a manual uninstallation has completed.

TorqueChallenger Ads

Threat Metric

Why Your Browser's Being Twisted into Advertisements

Challenging the Advertisements that Challenge Your Browser

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