Anywhere.me Toolbar

Posted: July 3, 2013

Threat Metric

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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:	9,611
Threat Level:	5/10
Infected PCs:	3,220

First Seen:	July 3, 2013
Last Seen:	September 10, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Anywhere.me Toolbar is a family of customizable toolbars that, according to their company, claim to offer easy revenue generation and free marketing for various digital brands. However, once SpywareRemove.com malware research team cleared the air of the Anywhere.me Toolbar's substantial marketing efforts, they found the Anywhere.me Toolbar to be no better than a typical PUP or Potentially Unwanted Application, with 'features' that redirect traffic to specified websites, hijack your homepage and generate advertising links. Because these functions don't offer anything of value to your Web-browsing experience, you usually should remove an Anywhere.me Toolbar, if the Anywhere.me Toolbar becomes installed without your consent. However, the Anywhere.me Toolbar currently is not categorized as malicious software and isn't a meaningful threat to your PC's safety.

Why Anywhere.me Toolbar Can Take You Anywhere... without Your Permission

The Anywhere.me Toolbar's website is filled with heavily positive marketing 'features' for businesses interested in using toolbars to promote their products, but less information can be found about how these toolbars benefit their actual users. Because an Anywhere.me Toolbar can be configured to promote various sites and services, SpywareRemove.com malware experts can't offer a firm analysis of links provided by Anywhere.me Toolbars, but they can recommend using a general degree of caution whenever you're dealing with sites promoted by them.

The Anywhere.me Toolbar's bittersweet 'features' do little to differentiate the Anywhere.me Toolbar from any other Potentially Unwanted Program or low-class browser hijacker. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers particularly noted the following traits related to the Anywhere.me Toolbar:

Changes that lock your browser's homepage to a pre-specified page.
An automatic update system that may change characteristics of the Anywhere.me Toolbar without your consent.
Additional links, advertisements and other unwanted content embedded into your browser, along with the associated Anywhere.me Toolbar's main components.

Digging Past the Hype to the Truth About the Anywhere.me Toolbar

Once you've discarded its website marketing and looked at the features included in an Anywhere.me Toolbar, you should be able to see that there are no real advantages to having the Anywhere.me Toolbar installed in your browser – even if various businesses would love for you to do so. The Anywhere.me Toolbar's browser changes are potential security issues, as with all browser changes that promote sites beyond your personal control. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers recommend deleting PUPs with anti-malware products that can guarantee the removal of all groundless browser changes as much as possible.

The Anywhere.me Toolbar is predominantly focused on the United Kingdom, but its functions are not limited to affecting PCs from that region. The Anywhere.me Toolbar's many variants also are compatible with multiple types of browsers, including Firefox and Internet Explorer, although non-Wndows machines appear to be beneath the Anywhere.me company's radar – at least, at this time.
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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:

tb_anywhere.me.leeds.exe

File name: tb_anywhere.me.leeds.exe
Size: 978.1 KB (978104 bytes)
MD5: bd1c8f0215ce6cdc92cf62abad28cf61
Detection count: 88
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 5, 2013

tb_anywhere.me.exe

File name: tb_anywhere.me.exe
Size: 977.88 KB (977880 bytes)
MD5: 61c71eb5dbc3c3b97f196e37d3966816
Detection count: 26
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 5, 2013