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Posted: September 30, 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.
Ranking: | 9,336 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 3,012 |
First Seen: | September 30, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | October 13, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
DealHut is adware that is promoted as an amazing shopping helper. It has no other function except inserting various commercial materials in your browsers. You may find DealHut as an extension in the Add-on Manager of your web client. The dubious tool may work just as well on Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. DealHut has no official webpage, and the majority of legitimate software sites don't host it. It has managed to reach the computers of many PC users thanks to a questionable distribution method, which is called 'bundling.' In short, when you install some freeware, it may encourage you to load some other programs in addition to it. If you prefer to conclude this process as soon as possible, you may skip the details and may install DealHut without knowing. DealHut states that it will optimize your shopping, and thanks to it you will save money. In reality, however, its presence is rarely as beneficial to the client as promised. The commercial materials displayed by this adware may be perceived as highly annoying because they may overwhelm your browsers. Numerous pop-ups, banners, interstitial ads and targeted videos may seize a significant part of your screen. It goes without saying that these multimedia elements may increase the loading time of the pages you want to visit. Moreover, some of the displayed coupons and discounts may lead towards untrustworthy sites. DealHut may be hard to delete, so you should consider using special security software for the task.
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