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Posted: November 24, 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: | 10/10 |
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| Infected PCs: | 26 |
| First Seen: | November 24, 2015 |
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| Last Seen: | April 19, 2024 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
It is always advisable to check the installers of freeware thoroughly for the presence of unrequested supplementary programs. Usually, the applications that rely on this bundling method are quite suspicious and may cause issues. One of the questionable Web add-ons that may sneak this way is BasementDuster. This dubious extension is adware, which is short for advertising-supported software. However, BasementDuster is not exactly 'supported' by ads. Its one and only function is to generate commercial materials that are not a 'side effect' to another feature that may benefit you. The ads that this adware puts in the visited sites may come in different shapes. You may encounter some intrusive pop-ups, banners, interstitial ads and videos that start playing automatically. Most of them may have the slogan 'Powered by BasementDuster.'
If you detect some double underlined words, then you should know they are hyperlinks that may trigger a pop-up if your mouse cursor hovers over them. To boost the traffic to its partners even more, BasementDuster may change some settings of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It may replace your default homepage with an unreliable search engine that may show sponsored links instead of accurate results. If the displayed coupons and vouchers were helpful, some people could actually enjoy the presence of this adware. However, the ads may lead to unknown sites, whose legitimacy is unverified. In some cases, it is even possible some of the promoted domains to represent a security risk to your PC. You may add sporadic freezes and crashes of the browsers to the already mentioned issues because some ads may consume a lot of system resources. Security experts suggest a special anti-malware solution to delete BasementDuster.
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