BrowzBi
Posted: March 25, 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.
Threat Level: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 42 |
First Seen: | March 25, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | May 10, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
BrowzBi is adware that may show unwanted pop-up ads whenever the computer user is visiting well-known social networking or online shopping websites. BrowzBi's advertisements may claim to be sent to the PC user by BrowzBi Deals or BrowzBi Ads.This may indicate that a Web browser is affected by adware, specifically, BrowzBi. BrowzBi may proliferate and access the PC through various packaged freeware that may hide itself as a program update, Web application, or any other beneficial software that PC users can download from the Internet. Once the computer user installs any free program, he may also install BrowzBi on the computer system as an additional application. PC users may overlook the installation steps of BrowzBi, which may agree to install this adware on the computer together with a free application. The pop-up ads shown by BrowzBi may slow down Internet connection and cause other issues on the computer system. BrowzBi may also collect the computer user's private details and record online surfing activities. BrowzBi may then transmit and use this data for targeted advertising purposes.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{694c6578-9518-4877-975f-59c2671da6c1}
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