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Posted: September 14, 2015
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: | 14,906 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 3,321 |
First Seen: | September 9, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | July 24, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Word Wizard is not the application you should use in case you want to improve your searches or the process of translating information. The benefits of keeping this tiny program are very questionable, but the presence of some annoying side effects is guaranteed. All Word Wizard does is allow its clients to perform a Google search or a translation of the highlighted terms directly, without the need to open new tabs. This feature may sound appealing to the less experienced users. However, the tech-savvy ones know that popular web browsers have already created this function and offer it for free. This fact gives security experts enough reasons to assume the real cause for the creation of Word Wizard is far less noble. Its developers profit from the presence of large amounts of artificially created advertisements. This behavior is why the specialists classify Word Wizard as adware. You may be disturbed to notice many aggressive pop-ups, banners, animations and hyperlinked words whenever you launch a web browser. Word Wizard comes as an add-on that works equally well on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, so makes no difference which browser you launch, the effects will be the same. The commercial materials are not only annoying but may also trouble the performance of the web clients. It is even possible to experience random freezes and crashes. What is more, the new pop-ups and banners are far from safe as they may take you towards dangerous parts of the web. Some of these pop-ups may even encourage you to install software that may be unsafe. Although the add-on is very tiny, it attaches to your web clients very firmly, so you should use special security software to delete it.
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:MsiExec.exe
File name: MsiExec.exeMime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Registry Modifications
Regexp file mask%WINDIR%\system32\Drivers\WWFD_[RANDOM CHARACTERS]_1_10_0_[RANDOM CHARACTERS].sys%WINDIR%\System32\Tasks\WordWizard Auto Updater[RANDOM CHARACTERS]HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\WordWizardAutoUpdateClient_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\WordWizardAutoUpdateClient_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\WordWizardAutoUpdateClient_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\WordWizardAutoUpdateClient_RASMANCS
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