Fox News Toolbar
Posted: July 22, 2013
Threat Metric
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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.
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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: | 9,614 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 2,389 |
First Seen: | July 22, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | September 28, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Fox News Toolbar is an unwanted toolbar/ browser hijacker, which is pushed via other free software (video recording/streaming, download-managers or PDF creators) downloads that had packed into their installation Fox News Toolbar. When installed on the affected computer system, Fox News Toolbar will insert the Fox News Community Toolbar, modify the default homepage with Search.conduit.com and the default search system with Fox News Customized Web Search. Fox News Customized Web Search will show unwanted pop-up advertisements and sponsored links in search results of any legitimate search tool, and may gather search terms from the attacked PC user's search queries. Fox News Toolbar is used by cybercriminals to boost traffic of the certain website by using blackhat SEO and earn money from click fraud. Fox News Toolbar is also packed within the custom installer on many download websites such as CNET, Brothersoft or Softonic, so if the web user has downloaded a particular program from these websites, he/she might also installed Fox News Toolbar during the program setup process.
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