Deal Fairy
Posted: June 18, 2013
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: | 10,928 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 4,998 |
First Seen: | June 18, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | September 19, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Deal Fairy is an adware program that displays advertisements, coupons and sponsored links via a pop-up box on Amazon, Walmart, Ebay and other shopping websites that web users are visiting. Deal Fairy pop-up advertisements will be displayed as boxes, which contain numerous coupons that are available or as underlined keywords, which when clicked will show a pop-up advertisement that claims it is sent to you by DealFairy. Deal Fairy is an extension for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that is usually added when computer users install another free program, such as video recording/streaming, download-managers or PDF creators, that had bundled into their installation Deal Fairy. When PC users install these free software programs, they will also install Deal Fairy. When installed, whenever the computer user will visit Expedia, Best Buy, Facebook or any other similar websites, Deal Fairy will display a 'See Similar' button on product images, which when clicked will display pop-up ads by Deal Fairy. Deal Fairy may also show advertising banners on the websites that Internet users are visiting, and as they browse the web, Deal Fairy will display coupons and other deals available on numerous websites.
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:df21.exe
File name: df21.exeSize: 1.17 MB (1176225 bytes)
MD5: fb2e910f09510c13f18484e18effe549
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 17, 2022
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{2CA83CAD-84D1-4A4D-B6E4-645515A32A7A}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{963B125B-8B21-49A2-A3A8-E37092276531}
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