FreebieCo Ads
Posted: December 9, 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.
Threat Level: | 1/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 23 |
First Seen: | December 9, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | January 10, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
FreebieCo is a suspicious ad-based extension created by the developers of WorkatHomeStar. FreebieCo is promoted as a beneficial shopping assistant that will show you a feed of coupons, discount codes and exclusive offers. In theory, these ads should make it easy for you to find good bargains. However, the majority of PC users may not be happy with the performance of FreebieCo. Instead of helping, this questionable software may cause various issues that may make your surfing sessions less enjoyable than before. This plugin may change a lot of settings of your Web clients without your proper authorization. FreebieCo may replace the homepage and default search engine of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. FreebieCo may also place additional commercial materials everywhere on the sites that you open. You may encounter a variety of pop-ups, banners, interstitial ads, sponsored videos or in-text ads. Some of them may have the slogan 'Brought by FreebieCo', but others may seem to be originating from the particular page. A lot of people may get annoyed by the persistence of these marketing elements because they may become part of almost every visited site. If your PC is older, the constant loading of multimedia ads may lead to unexpected glitches, errors or freezes. Contrary to the popular belief, the choice of coupons and discounts may not be random. FreebieCo may check the browser cookies to adjust them to your taste. However, you should avoid clicking on them because you can never be sure where they will transfer you. In some cases, the ads may lead to an infection ultimately by opening harmful sites. FreebieCo may enter against the will of the PC user by hiding its presence in software bundles. You should consider using reliable security software to delete this adware and restore your browsers to their normal state.
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:FreebieCo_Setup.exe
File name: FreebieCo_Setup.exeSize: 1 MB (1003640 bytes)
MD5: 26e446aed425b0ab4dfe05e31604ab3f
Detection count: 72
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 9, 2015
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