Astori
Posted: September 3, 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: | 8/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 94 |
First Seen: | September 3, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | October 4, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The reason you may be facing some "Ads by Astori" during your surfing sessions is that there is adware in your system. This tool comes in the form of an add-on and attaches to all available browsers. The ad-supported extension can modify even the popular web clients like Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. Astori is not among the programs you download voluntarily. This adware travels across the cyberspace together with other programs, which are typically free. This way, the inattentive users may agree to load Astori without knowing. To oppose this "bundling" delivery strategy, you should always perform the setup process through the "Custom" or "Advanced" menu. The course of action of this add-on is simple: it creates commercial materials to boost the traffic towards partner pages. For this service, the developers of the adware receive pay-per-click commissions. They will get their revenues only if the clients click on the displayed offers. To achieve this purpose, Astori relies on two different tactics. First, the ads come in large amounts. Your browsers will be literally overwhelmed by banners, pop-ups, interstitial ads and automatically launched videos. Even if you don't want to, you may sooner or later click on some of them accidentally. Second, the ads try to attract your interest as much as possible. The adware checks which sites you visit to produce a model of the products that may interest you. No matter how good the offers and discounts seem to be, you should not click on them because you never know where they will take you. Some of the affiliated domains may host unsafe software. The best thing you can do is to delete Astori completely, and a powerful malware removal application can help you a lot.
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