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Posted: December 7, 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: | 1/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 23 |
First Seen: | December 7, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | January 10, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Dating Shot is not the proper solution if you want to meet a new girlfriend or boyfriend. This program is classified as adware. The Dating Shot may ruin your surfing sessions with large quantities of intrusive commercial materials. Its developers assure that the Dating Shot will help you find the best dating sites. Even if this feature were indeed present, you wouldn't need it. Brief research on any search site will show you the most popular dating platforms. In reality, however, the Dating Shot doesn't try to redirect you to such pages. The Dating Shot may display various pop-ups, banners and interstitial ads that may lead to e-commerce platforms. This performance is beneficial both for the developers of Dating Shot and the administrators of the sponsored sites. The former receive referral commissions, while the latter get a steady flow of visitors. However, you may not be on the winning side. The marketing elements exhibited by this adware may cause significant annoyance with their persistency. The coupons and offers may not appear solely when you browse the shopping platforms. Instead, you may encounter them wherever you go. Some of these ads may cover important page buttons, thus making it difficult for you to navigate through the site without clicking on them. As you probably know, multimedia ads like videos and animations may require quite some resources for their loading. As a result, the overall performance of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer may deteriorate. The most worrying issue regarding the Dating Shot is that there is no mechanism that can verify the legitimacy of the sponsored sites. Some of the ads may be threatening. They may take you to pages that may endanger the stability of your system. The presence of the Dating Shot may be a surprise to some users. If you cannot recall loading this extension, the Dating Shot probably entered together with other freeware. The experts encourage you to use a special anti-malware solution to delete this adware efficiently.
Technical Details
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:DatingShot_Setup.exe
File name: DatingShot_Setup.exeSize: 1 MB (1003640 bytes)
MD5: f09bcb470afe5357a591db73d63b4bfe
Detection count: 9
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 7, 2015
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