Clickorati Virus

Posted: May 6, 2013

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

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:	5/10
Infected PCs:	59

First Seen:	May 6, 2013
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Clickorati Virus is a generic term for any browser hijacker that uses browser redirects and hijacks involving Clickorati.com. Recent variants of the Clickorati Virus use a combination of Registry-based changes and browser changes, including locking your homepage to Clickorati.com, to force you to use that site's fake search engine – a search engine that actually only provides advertisements and other questionable results. Contact with Clickorati.com is not especially harmful, but SpywareRemove.com malware experts do consider the Clickorati Virus, like all browser hijackers, to be a small security risk, and anti-malware applications always should be used to delete the Clickorati Virus as completely as possible.

Why What You Click Doesn't Matter to a Clickorati Virus

The Clickorati Virus is designed to take control of your browser through multiple methods, always with the purpose of redirecting you to Clickorati.com without your permission. SpywareRemove.com malware experts haven't seen any browser add-ons linked to the Clickorati Virus, which appears to be installed as a side effect of the installation of other kinds of PC threats and unrelated freeware applications. Symptoms linked to current formats of Clickorati Virus infections include:

Having your homepage set to Clickorati.com.
Being redirected to Clickorati.com whenever you try to use a different search site.
Having Clickorati.com set as your browser's default 'new tab' page.

The Clickorati Virus also may monitor and collect basic information about you, such as your IP address and which sites you visit. Thankfully, SpywareRemove.com malware experts haven't seen the Clickorati Virus use these capabilities to attempt to steal passwords or other kinds of sensitive information, but the Clickorati Virus still does this without your permission and without offering an option for disabling the 'feature.'

The End of the Line for a Clickorati Virus's Redirects

The final destination in the Clickorati Virus's attacks, Clickorati.com, only was registered two months ago (as of May 2013) and should be browsed with caution. However, SpywareRemove.com malware research team hasn't seen evidence of sites promoted by the Clickorati Virus being used to distribute any kind of malicious content. In most cases, the greatest danger you'll face from a Clickorati Virus is some difficulty in searching the web and being exposed to an excess of advertisements.

Because standard Clickorati Virus infections don't display any software components to be deleted through standard methods, SpywareRemove.com malware experts suggest using good anti-malware programs to get rid of a Clickorati Virus safely. Browser hijackers like the Clickorati Virus never should be thought of as beneficial for your web-surfing experience, even if they redirect you to sites without any malicious content.
The Clickorati Virus's attacks aren't associated to any particular browser, although Windows-based systems most likely are at the greatest risk of being targeted for Clickorati.com redirects.

Clickorati Virus

Threat Metric

Why What You Click Doesn't Matter to a Clickorati Virus

The End of the Line for a Clickorati Virus's Redirects

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