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Posted: August 17, 2015

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:	8/10
Infected PCs:	183

First Seen:	August 17, 2015
Last Seen:	March 23, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Deal2Deal is adware that may modify your Web-browsing settings for launching extra advertisements. Although malware experts haven't connected Deal2Deal with any threat campaign, there have been reports of Deal2Deal installing itself automatically, and preventing its easy deletion. As a result of these usability problems along with its innate security issues, removing Deal2Deal with any anti-adware program should be most PC owners' first response.

The Drawbacks of Dealing with Deal2Deal

Many PC users may think of adware as toolbars or similar products that may attach themselves to individual browsers. However, some adware products aim for a higher degree of compatibility for delivering their advertisements. Deal2Deal (first spotted in 2015) is just one such adware product and may install itself without any toolbars or other, high-visibility browser components. Most PC users only identify Deal2Deal through its primary symptoms: its multi-browser advertisements.

Deal2Deal may monitor the websites that are loaded by your browsers and then select 'relevant' advertising affiliates based on your Web searches and pages visited. Most Deal2Deal advertisements may display themselves with clearly labeled formats injected into your Web pages or loaded in banners in a secondary content layer. Malware experts have confirmed Deal2Deal modifying most Windows browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome, although they expect confirmation for others, such as Edge or the OS X's Safari.

Deal2Deal's website does include uninstallation instructions for its software with references to individual browser extensions. Contrasting these recommendations, however, malware experts have found most samples of Deal2Deal installing themselves without any visible extensions that you could deactivate via your browser's internal controls.

Changing Deal2Deal to a Deal Reneged

Deal2Deal promotes but does not distribute itself at its website, bycontext.com. This website includes uninstallation recommendations that malware experts often find inapplicable to deleting Deal2Deal from the affected PC. PC users who try to uninstall Deal2Deal by the Windows Control Panel also may find its advertising content continuing to be injected in their browsers, regardless of any pertinent browser settings. In spite of these issues, you shouldn't block Deal2Deal's symptoms without removing its software. Even when its advertisements aren't visible, Deal2Deal's monitoring of your Web activity and modifying of Web content may remain security risks.

Anti-adware scanners and PC security suites that include anti-adware features should be capable of detecting and removing Deal2Deal, along with any unwanted browser changes. Some PC users may find it necessary to reset their browser's cache and related saved data to erase Deal2Deal advertisements completely. Like other, recent adware, deleting Deal2Deal can be made more certain for PC users who guarantee that their security products are operating with the latest available patches and threat databases.

Since Deal2Deal doesn't distribute itself from its official website, you're unlikely to install this adware product deliberately. Deal2Deal and other adware may require to be bundled with second applications, which may distribute themselves through torrents, free software sites and similar sources. Like Deal2Deal, itself, many of these bundle-based installers should be identifiable by appropriate anti-adware tools.

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:

C:\Program Files\sushileads\NpUpdaterService.exe

File name: C:\Program Files\sushileads\NpUpdaterService.exe
MD5: 929be05f9616d0546ea533344d4bc5eb
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

Quartz.dll

File name: Quartz.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file

Common.Logging.dll

File name: Common.Logging.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file

HtmlAgilityPack.dll

File name: HtmlAgilityPack.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file

NpUpdaterService.exe

File name: NpUpdaterService.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

ScheduledTask.exe

File name: ScheduledTask.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

AppResources.dll

File name: AppResources.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file

Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler.dll

File name: Microsoft.Win32.TaskScheduler.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file

RestSharp.dll

File name: RestSharp.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file

Captcha.exe

File name: Captcha.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

Newtonsoft.Json.dll

File name: Newtonsoft.Json.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file

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