Boost Updater
Posted: August 11, 2014
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.
Ranking: | 8,752 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 1,747 |
First Seen: | August 11, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | October 3, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Boost Updater is a program that has proven to potentially be an unwanted application. The Boost Updater program may offer various add-on functions for your web browser, which could cause annoying things to take place. Some of those actions may include loading of other sites causing redirects to questionable sites or offering quick access buttons through a toolbar loaded on your web browser application. Boost Updater may also render fake notifications, ads or sponsored links through pages it lands you on. In the case that you wish to remove Boost Updater and stop its activities on your system while you are surfing the internet, you may find all of its components or plugins and remove each of them manually. Automatically removing Boost Updater from your computer may involve use of an updated antispyware application.
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