Gboxapp

Posted: April 10, 2013

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

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:	8/10
Infected PCs:	1,499

First Seen:	April 10, 2013
Last Seen:	September 15, 2021
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Gboxapp is a variant of the Gadgetbox Toolbar, through methods such as its being bundled with other applications (usually freeware media products). As also is true of the Gadgetbox Toolbar, Gboxapp has been known to launch browser-hijacking redirect attacks that force your browser to load its website and also may block safe websites such as Gmail. Because Gboxapp isn't associated with drive-by-download or other types of invasive PC threats, any contact with sites linked to Gboxapp has, for the moment, been rated as relatively safe by SpywareRemove.com malware analysts. However, Gboxapp and similar browser hijackers should be removed from your PC regularly as soon as they're noticed, and using appropriate anti-malware scanners to do so is, of course, commendable.

Gboxapp: the App that Likes to Control Where You Go

Gboxapp usually isn't downloaded as a stand-alone plugin (unlike the Gadgetbox Toolbar, which promotes the same company and site), but is installed by other software installers that may or may not make that fact clear to you beforehand. As this list elaborates upon, SpywareRemove.com malware research team has associated several negative functions with Gboxapp and no real positive ones:

Gboxapp may change your homepage to Gboxapp.com or a related Gadgetbox site automatically. Changing your homepage settings back without removing Gboxapp is prevented.
Gboxapp also will hijack your online searches by forcing you to use the Gboxapp search engine instead of any preferred alternative.
As a finishing touch on this browser hijacker's cake, Gboxapp even may prevent you from accessing various popular sites. During this attack, Gboxapp may display fraudulent alerts about the website's security certificate authentication.

Unfortunately for the public at large, Gboxapp is compatible with multiple types of web browsers. As a counterbalancing positive note, SpywareRemove.com malware research team has concluded that only Windows PCs are affected by Gboxapp's browser hijacks.

Busting Your Browser Out of the Gboxapp's Box

No matter how Gboxapp may have been installed, Gboxapp never should be considered a beneficial program for your web-browsing experience, and its deletion is advisable as a basic matter of your online security.
Deleting Gboxapp should use a powerful anti-malware program that can remove both Gboxapp's concealed software components and its settings changes, the latter of which may promote redirects to Gboxapp-related sites even after Gboxapp is removed (only if Gboxapp isn't deleted in an appropriate fashion). An identical degree of paranoia should be used around the Gadgetbox Toolbar – a nearly-identical browser hijacker that performs the same functions as Gboxapp.

Gboxapp

Threat Metric

Gboxapp: the App that Likes to Control Where You Go

Busting Your Browser Out of the Gboxapp's Box

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