YouBoost
Posted: December 17, 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.
Threat Level: | 1/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 468 |
First Seen: | December 17, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | July 3, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
YouBoost is not a legit software that can increase your downloading speed. YouBoost is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that you may not enjoy. There are several serious issues with this questionable application. The problems begin with the distribution tactic that the developer may use. Many popular Web clients have blocked the official page of YouBoost. If you attempt to load YouBoost, you will see a large red message warning that the site is unsafe. If you proceed despite the recommendation to leave, you may be surprised to see that there is no download button. The people behind YouBoost don't hope that PC users will install their tool willingly. Instead, they may spread the PUP in software bundles. Unless the person unmarks the checkbox of the unreliable application manually, YouBoost will enter. Thus, many users may be surprised to detect YouBoost in their systems. The second negative aspect of this software is that YouBoost doesn't function as promised. Your download speed depends mainly on your Internet provider. Suspicious accelerators like YouBoost may have no effect whatsoever. Third, this program is ad-supported. YouBoost may be the reason you see many more pop-ups, banners, interstitial ads, in-text ads and animations than usual. You may find them simultaneously in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. To increase the traffic towards its partners, YouBoost also may modify your search results by including various sponsored links. One of the issues that these new commercial materials may create concerns the performance of the browsers. Instead of increasing the speed, the PUP may increase the time necessary to load the pages. Another potential problem with the sponsored ads is that they may sometimes open compromised domains. You should use a special anti-malware solution to delete YouBoost efficiently.
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:%TEMP%\ybsetup.exe
File name: ybsetup.exeSize: 2.69 MB (2699776 bytes)
MD5: ce33ea682a521df3bdae628d9fcdac97
Detection count: 59
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %TEMP%
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 17, 2015
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