DirAnalyze
Posted: July 12, 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.
Threat Level: | 1/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 211 |
First Seen: | July 12, 2017 |
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Last Seen: | February 7, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
DirAnalyze is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) whose official website claims that its purpose is to help users free up disk space by removing duplicated files and informing them if any files take up too much disk space automatically. However, it is possible that DirAnalyze may display fraudulent and exaggerated results to convince users that they can free up a lot of disk space by simply paying for the full version of this application. The trial version of DirAnalyze can be installed for free, but it is only able to work as a scanner, which checks the computer and generates a report that consists of information about the large and duplicate files that can be removed.
It seems that the propagation of DirAnalyze happens with the help of software bundling – a method that is often used to spread Potentially Unwanted Programs and other low-quality software. Due to the tricks that software bundles may use, it is possible that some users might install DirAnalyze even though they did not intend to do this. Once this application is installed, it may be started automatically whenever Windows boots, and it may keep displaying reminders, which state that the user has to pay for the full license to complete the recommended optimization tasks.
There are many free PC optimization utilities more functional than DirAnalyze that will not use shady tricks to get users to send money to their publishers. If you have DirAnalyze on your computer, then our recommendation is to remove it as soon as possible, since this application has nothing of value to offer. Its removal can be completed manually, but our advice is to get rid of it by using a reputable anti-malware tool.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
File name without pathsdiskfinder.exeRegexp file mask%WINDIR%\System32\Tasks\DirAnalyzer%WINDIR%\System32\Tasks\SDisk FinderHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\DirAnalyzerSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\SDisk Finder
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