AZLyrics

Posted: January 16, 2015

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.

Threat Level:	8/10
Infected PCs:	26

First Seen:	January 15, 2015
Last Seen:	November 30, 2021
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

AZLyrics is a Potentially Unwanted Program associated with azlyrics.com, a free lyrics website. Although AZLyrics isn't threatening, AZLyrics may reduce the safety of your Web-browsing activities or change your browser's settings automatically, which may expose you to attacks by third parties. Ordinarily, any software with these qualities, combined with AZLyrics poor reputation, should be uninstalled for your PC's security. Some variants of AZLyrics software may be reinstalled by other PUPs or threats, in which case appropriate anti-malware scanners and similar security tools should uninstall all relevant, unwanted programs.

AZLyrics's Product History from A to Z

AZLyrics is one of the various PUPs associated with lyrics sites that include functions unrelated to providing those song lyrics. Some of the most common symptoms to anticipate with AZLyrics installed may include:

Browser-based advertisements that may load as separate pop-ups, or as advertisements embedded in your current window.
In addition to being forced to load advertisements, your browser also may be redirected to AZLyrics's primary site, AZLyrics.com, or one of that site's mirror domains.

Victims of any unwanted advertisements or redirects also should take note of potential exposure to other AZLyrics websites that may be more harmful than AZLyrics.com (a site that has been found to lack any identifiable threatening content). In their latest research, malware experts verified that at least one domain associated with AZLyrics, AZLyrics.us, has hosted JavaScript exploits that attempt to install PUPs and potential threats automatically. The domain registration information currently available implies the ongoing exploitation of AZLyrics's brand name by this secondary site for acquiring 'free' traffic. Unlike AZLyrics.com, AZLyrics.us is classified as threatening, and you should avoid any unprotected contact with AZLyrics.

Although Firefox users have enjoyed security features making them less vulnerable to the current attacks hosted in AZLyrics.us, users of most major browsers, including Firefox, also have been vulnerable to other AZLyrics-related issues. The most typical of the latter include invasive Web cache files and cookies, which lack executable program components, but your PC's security software still may flag them as potentially unwanted files.

Forcing Silence upon an AZLyrics Add-On

In rare cases, AZLyrics is one of the many PUPs and other PC threats that all install themselves on your PC through the same source. Mid-2014 campaigns for distributing AZLyrics also were seen installing Bandoo Media-brand PUPs and the RocketTab search hijacker, all of which were supplied by a rogue security program. The latter scamware, Antimalware360, was found reinstalling all three PUPs after any attempts at removal. In this scenario and all similar ones, malware experts have found that restarting with Safe Mode to use qualified anti-malware software is the simplest way to remove all unwanted programs.

On the other hand, some file detections related to AZLyrics may be non-threatening and may not even be related to the presence of AZLyrics software. Unless additional alerts or symptoms give you any cause to suspect that other threats besides AZLyrics have involvement in the identification of these files, you can treat them as PUPs whose removal is optional, but recommended. Meanwhile, any fraudulent security products that may be responsible for AZLyrics's presence always should be considered as nothing less than threatening software, with their immediate and total deletion highly encouraged.

AZLyrics

Threat Metric

AZLyrics's Product History from A to Z

Forcing Silence upon an AZLyrics Add-On

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