Actual Click Shopping
Posted: July 12, 2013
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: | 8/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 28 |
First Seen: | July 12, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | December 25, 2020 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Actual Click Shopping is an adware program that displays annoying pop-up advertisements, coupons and sponsored links via a pop-up box on Facebook, Google, Amazon and other shopping websites that Internet users are visiting. Actual Click Shopping pop-up advertisements will be displayed as boxes, which carry numerous coupons that are available or as underlined keywords, which when clicked will show a pop-up advertisement that claims it is sent to you by Actual Click Shopping. Actual Click Shopping is an extension for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that is usually inserted when web users install other free programs, such as video recording/streaming, download-managers or PDF creators, that had packed into their installation Actual Click Shopping. When PC users install these free software products, they will also install Actual Click Shopping. While being installed, whenever the computer user will visit Expedia, Best Buy, Facebook or any other similar websites, Actual Click Shopping will display a 'See Similar' button on product images, which when clicked will display pop-up ads by Actual Click Shopping. Actual Click Shopping may also show advertising banners on the websites that PC users are visiting, and as they browse the web, Actual Click Shopping will display coupons and other deals available on a number of websites.
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