HappinessInfusion Toolbar
Posted: June 17, 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.
Threat Level: | 5/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 304 |
First Seen: | June 17, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | October 30, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
HappinessInfusion Toolbar, also known as Happiness Infusion Toolbar, is a toolbar, which offers PC users a healthy dose of humor, strategies for the life-long happiness, fun games, cards and similar stuff. However, HappinessInfusion Toolbar can also be classified as an adware application, which invades targeted computers and changes the compromised PC's settings. While HappinessInfusion Toolbar is not technically a virus, it can change the start page and default search engine without the attacked computer user's permission asked. HappinessInfusion Toolbar is associated with MyWebSearch. This tricky search website can be set to keep track of victimized computer users by recording their browsing activity and also redirecting PC users to unwanted advertising websites by returning changed search results. If you didn't install HappinessInfusion Toolbar on the computer manually, remove it from the PC without doubt. HappinessInfusion Toolbar can be installed from its official website as a tool, which is able to improve your browsing activity. However, HappinessInfusion Toolbar can also enter the corrupted PC bundled with other freeware programs. HappinessInfusion Toolbar targets Internet browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and other web browsers.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
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