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Posted: April 3, 2015

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.

Ranking:	16,518
Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	4,019

First Seen:	April 3, 2015
Last Seen:	January 7, 2025
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Ads by Name is an adware product that may modify the Web pages loaded by your browser so that Ads by Name can deliver additional advertisements. Like similar adware, Ads by Name may harm the overall performance of a browser, or even expose you to threatening advertisement content unintentionally. Ordinary circumstances call for deleting Ads by Name with a dedicated anti-adware application. However, as with other non-threatening PUPs, malware experts allow PC users to make their personal judgments about the cost to benefit ratio of the installed add-on.

The Ads by Whatever Name They Please

Ads by Name uses the same template as previous browser-based adware products, such as Ads by Info, Ads by VidX, Fassurun, Browsebit or Ads By FocusBase. Instead of generating advertisements as separate pop-ups, Ads by Name may modify the contents of your Web browser while you surf the Web. Web pages may suffer injections of additional scripts for loading Ads by Name's advertisements, which may include advertisements tagged as being from multiple sources besides Ads by Name.

The average content of an Ads by Name advertisement may use a graphical banner, and may promote freemium games, online financial services or other Web-based products. In some cases, malware experts also saw Ads by Name's advertisements failing to load properly, which may generate blank boxes in place of any advertisement content. Ads by Name advertisements may make heavy use of scripts, such as Flash, that may be a source of attacks against your PC by third parties.

Ads by Name also may promote lightquartrate.com, a search site with an extensive reputation for being a beneficiary of adware-based browser hijackings.

Removing the Adware with No Name

Since its advertisements may use multiple identification tags, Ads by Name may be slightly harder to identify than previous adware. Ads by Name also may affect more than one Web browser; so far, malware experts verified Ads by Name's compatibility with Chrome and Firefox. Ads by Name is a Potentially Unwanted Program with limited positive features and a high rate of causing a quality of life disruption for its users. As a result, uninstalling Ads by Name is the response most PC users should consider for this adware.

Despite that conclusion, a manual removal of Ads by Name may cause an incomplete deletion that doesn't reverse all of its advertisement-based settings changes. Restoring your browser to its default state, including the purging of any advertisements and performance issues, can be done most efficiently by dedicated anti-adware products. Similarly, those same products are capable of detecting Ads by Name installers before its installation.

Malware experts found most Ads by Name installers to use non-consensual delivery methods that could disguise the nature of this adware until its advertisements are loading in your browser.

Ads by Name

Threat Metric

The Ads by Whatever Name They Please

Removing the Adware with No Name

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