BuzzSurfing
Posted: March 3, 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: | 497 |
First Seen: | March 3, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | May 7, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
BuzzSurfing is adware that may display pop-up advertisements, discount coupons, offers, deals and sponsored links in the form of a pop-up box on online shopping and other websites that PC users are visiting. The pop-up advertisements labelled as 'Ads by BuzzSurfing' may be displayed as boxes, which may contain a variety of discount coupons and deals, which, when clicked by PC users, may forcibly divert them to suspicious websites that may be commercial. BuzzSurfing is a browser extension, plug-in and add-on for the Web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that may commonly be inserted when the computer user installs free applications that might had packaged into their installation BuzzSurfing. When the computer user installs free applications, he may also install BuzzSurfing.
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File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\BuzzSurfing-soft\BuzzSurfing155.exe
File name: BuzzSurfing155.exeSize: 194.04 KB (194048 bytes)
MD5: 849ebe3d0abd6c9cc9cf1dcb69e48e4c
Detection count: 239
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\BuzzSurfing-soft
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 5, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\BuzzSurfing-soft\BuzzSurfing_wd.exe
File name: BuzzSurfing_wd.exeSize: 93.18 KB (93184 bytes)
MD5: c35856c828df979aaa0296ebbaf08117
Detection count: 239
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\BuzzSurfing-soft
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 5, 2014
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