Enhanced Results

Posted: January 16, 2014

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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:	862
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	202,383

First Seen:	January 16, 2014
Last Seen:	March 10, 2025
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Enhanced Results is adware that modifies your browser's loaded Web pages by forcing them to include additional advertisements, which are of little to no benefit to Enhanced Results's user. For the most part, malware researchers recommend removing all adware to keep your browser safe and stable, and there's little reason not to apply the same recommendations to Enhanced Results. Besides not providing anything of value to your browser, Enhanced Results may slow down browser's performance, and its advertisements, being non-consensual modifications of preexisting Web pages, may induce a variety of security hazards.

The Enhancement to Your Browser You Shouldn't Get

Enhanced Results is a branding misnomer that's very typical for browser add-ons with more invested in misleading their users than in providing meaningful features. Although Enhanced Results claims to provide additional search results with tangible benefits to your browser, malware experts have found that Enhanced Results simply is adware. Its advertisements primarily are formatted to appear as sponsored search results, above any natural search results that are displayed in various search engines.

Because Enhanced Results reserves the right to update itself without any warning, Enhanced Results also may add additional features to itself. You also may want to watch for other common adware symptoms, such as pop-ups, text-injected advertisement links and other advertising content. The consequences of allowing Enhanced Results's advertisements to display automatically may include poor browser performance and browser crashes.

As a thin line of encouragement, Enhanced Results hasn't been classified as a threat and will not attack your PC deliberately. Even with this minor upside, this doesn't preclude Enhanced Results displaying advertisements that may harm your PC through poor security practices, which malware experts would rate as being likely.

Getting Just the Results You Want from Your Web Searches

Since Enhanced Results has little real 'enhancement' to add to your Web browser, you shouldn't need to think long about the cost-to-benefit ratio behind any average Enhanced Results installation. While malware researchers don't classify Enhanced Results as a threat like a Trojan or other harmful program, removing Enhanced Results is in the best interest of your PC in general, and your browser in specific. Using a trusted name in anti-adware software for deleting Enhanced Results will give you the best results possible for making sure that your browser actually has been cured, as opposed to other uninstalling options that only may block the most obvious symptoms.

Potentially Unwanted Programs just like Enhanced Results may be bundled with more-desirable freeware products than themselves, with the installation of the adware handled as a default-checked option or as a hidden 'bonus.' While malware experts have good results with getting professional anti-malware products to detect bundles that could include Enhanced Results, there's no substitute for safe browsing habits that prevent you from downloading these types of hazards in the first place.

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The following URL's were detected:

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