BrowserMe
Posted: January 20, 2017
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: | 9/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 32 |
First Seen: | January 20, 2017 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
BrowserMe is a stealthy adware application that may run on a computer without giving the user any hints that there's something fishy going on. This is because unlike most adware, BrowserMe does not rely on visible advertisements that will annoy the users whenever they attempt to navigate the Web. Instead, BrowserMe is programmed to launch silent background copies of Google Chrome, which load a set of pre-defined URL addresses automatically. The instances of Google Chrome that BrowserMe launches are not visible and users will only find out about them if they see multiple Google Chrome processes, even though they are not using the Web browser at the moment. The ads that BrowserMe opens are not unsafe, and the adware does not have the ability to download any content from the ad pages, so users who have BrowserMe on their computers are not at risk of being infected with more severe threats.
Apart from the interesting way this adware uses to generate page views, its authors also have decided to adopt a pretty different distribution campaign. Instead of advertising it as a particularly useful extension, they promote it via manipulated Web pages that show scrambled images in the place of text. Then, the page displays a pop-up that tells users that their browser does not support certain fonts, and they need to download the file 'Chrome_Font.exe' to view the page properly. More experienced users might be able to recognize that this is a tactic, but more naive users would not hesitate to install the Chrome_Font.exe file in hopes that they'll improve their Web browsing experience. However, instead of installing Chrome fonts, the executable file will deploy the BrowserMe adware.
Although BrowserMe is not threatening, the excessive number of Google Chrome processes it launches may impair a computer's performance severely by loading various pages and draining hardware and network resources constantly. The best way to deal with BrowserMe is to use a credible and up-to-date anti-malware scanner since this is the most efficient way to make sure that every last component of BrowserMe will be erased permanently.
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:Chrome_Font.exe
File name: Chrome_Font.exeFile type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
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