DailyProductivityTools Toolbar
Posted: March 10, 2017
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: | 2,243 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 24,480 |
First Seen: | March 10, 2017 |
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Last Seen: | October 17, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The DailyProductivityTools Toolbar is a browser extension that is meant to help users by providing them with quick access to a broad range of free online services and utilities that can help them take care of some minor daily tasks such as paying bills, shortening URLs, organizing their daily plans and upcoming events, and others. While this may seem like an attractive offer, there are much better and also free alternatives to the DailyProductivityTools Toolbar, and many of them might even offer extended features without additional requirements.
The software publisher behind the DailyProductivityTools Toolbar is Mindspark, a company that is well-known for its tendency to develop and maintain various browser utilities that add additional features to the user's Web browser. The DailyProductivityTools Toolbar isn't any different from other products and, unfortunately, its installation comes with some extra conditions that users are required to agree with. When attempting to install the DailyProductivityTools Toolbar, users may be asked to allow the software to change their default new tab page to a website associated with MyWay.com, a search engine linked to a long list of Mindspark products. This action is neither intrusive nor harmful, but some users might not be happy with the fact that this extension may change their new tab page to a 3rd-party search engine.
The new tab page that the DailyProductivityTools Toolbar brings to the Web browsers may turn out to be quite useful since it runs search queries through the Yahoo Search, and also hosts a collection of quick links to some of the most frequently visited websites worldwide. However, users who don't wish to continue using the DailyProductivityTools Toolbar or the page it promotes, are advised to uninstall this PUP from their computers.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
File name without pathdailyproductivitytools.dl.myway[1].xmldailyproductivitytools.dl.tb.ask[1].xmlhttp_dailyproductivitytools.dl.myway.com_0.localstoragehttp_dailyproductivitytools.dl.myway.com_0.localstorage-journalhttp_dailyproductivitytools.dl.tb.ask.com_0.localstoragehttp_dailyproductivitytools.dl.tb.ask.com_0.localstorage-journalHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\DailyProductivityToolsSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\dailyproductivitytools.dl.myway.comHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}DailyProductivityToolsTooltab Uninstall Internet Explorer
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