Cat Dog Ads
Posted: November 25, 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: | 8/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 77 |
First Seen: | November 25, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | September 14, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Cat Dog is adware that may promote third-party sites by placing additional commercial materials in your browsers. The creator of this questionable Web add-on is a company called Yontoo LLC. This software developer is associated with numerous applications that may cause annoyance to the clients. Cat Dog may not be one of these programs that PC users search for and download intentionally. Even if you take your time to try to find a platform that hosts it, your efforts may be in vain. The adware doesn't have an official product page as its developers don't rely on the direct downloads to spread it. Instead, Cat Dog may be found in the installers of various third-party free tools. For this reason, some people who skip the details may not detect the presence of the unrequested add-on in time.
After it reaches the system, Cat Dog may proceed by making various changes in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. The first modification that you may encounter concerns to your homepage. The adware may set an unknown and dubious search site as the starting point of your surfing sessions. You should not use it because these platforms may display highly manipulated results to redirect unsuspecting users to third-party domains. As you visit your favorite sites, you may notice increased amounts of commercial banners, pop-ups, videos, animations and so on. It would be completely understandable if these marketing materials cause irritation to you because of their intrusiveness. It is even possible their existence lead to a noticeable drop in the performance of Web clients, which can be explained by multimedia-heavy elements. The greatest risk of Cat Dog is that it may transfer you to potentially unsafe pages. To keep your PC safe and efficient, you should consider deleting this adware.
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