Vid Saver

Posted: April 1, 2013

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:	2/10
Infected PCs:	32

First Seen:	April 1, 2013
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Vid Saver is marketed as a video-watching utility but, unfortunately, also has been classified as adware due to its habit of displaying advertisements while you browse unrelated sites (very similar to the behavior of Deal Vault, another adware add-on by the same company). Along with its generally undesirable advertisements, Vid Saver also shows some malicious underpinnings by being very resistant to the standard add-on removal techniques that would be sufficient for any standard browser add-on. As a nuisance with potential performance-harming functions, Vid Saver ordinarily should be removed as soon as Vid Saver is noticed, and SpywareRemove.com malware experts particularly encourage using strong anti-malware programs for deleting Vid Saver conveniently.

Vid Saver: Saving Your Videos at the Cost of Your Sanity

Vid Saver claims to be useful for watching website-streamed videos whenever you want, but Vid Saver's most relevant functions all appear to be focused on delivering advertisements. Vid Saver creates two primary advertisement-delivery mechanisms that interfere with your usual browsing of various sites:

Keyword-based text links that are inserted into the text content of other websites. These advertisements are supposedly 'related to your browsing habits,' in the sense that they advertise products related to the keywords that are forced to host the links.
The addition of new advertising boxes above the content of prominent sites like Google. These boxes will display an 'advertisements not by this site' tag line that allows you to identify Vid Saver's insertions easily.

Being the One to Save Your PC from the Vid Saver

While SpywareRemove.com malware experts have yet to confirm how functional Vid Saver's video-saving features are, they do stress that similar video utilities are available without the advertisements that Vid Saver adds on for its own benefit. Besides its own problems, Vid Saver also may be accompanied by other PUPs with similar advertisement-related features, such as FBPhotoZoom, Yontoo and 1ClickDownload. These PUPs are just as undesirable as Vid Saver and should be removed with Vid Saver as soon as it's convenient to do so.

With a form of bullheadedness that's typical for low-level PC threats like adware, Vid Saver has been found to be heavily resistant to normal deletion techniques. If you experience problems in removing Vid Saver, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers can't suggest a preferable solution to using anti-malware applications to delete Vid Saver during a scan.

To avoid a Vid Saver infection to begin with, you also should be cautious around free software sources with a predilection towards installing Potentially Unwanted Programs, adware, browser hijackers and all other low-level PC threats. In some cases, your browser also should be able to block some aspects of Vid Saver and comparable PC threats, but being able to block Vid Saver's advertisements shouldn't be considered a substitute for deleting Vid Saver and preserving the integrity of your web-browsing environment.

Vid Saver

Threat Metric

Vid Saver: Saving Your Videos at the Cost of Your Sanity

Being the One to Save Your PC from the Vid Saver

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