Help Me Find Your Info Hijacker
Posted: April 5, 2013
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.
Ranking: | 8,276 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 279 |
First Seen: | April 5, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | October 16, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Help Me Find Your Info Hijacker is a browser plugin that replaces the default search engine, home page and new tab page of the hacked web browser with websearch.helpmefindyour.info. Websearch.helpmefindyour.info offers web, video, image and news search options. For example, after performing a video search, the PC user will get rerouted to another search website that belongs to Help Me Find Your Info Hijacker. If the computer user attempts to restore the home page, default search engine and/or new tab page by following usual instructions, he/she will see that the browser settings do not correspond to the commands given. A plugin of Help Me Find Your Info Hijacker is usually installed unintentionally. The toolbar of Help Me Find Your Info Hijacker is often bundled with freeware or shareware applications. The toolbar of Help Me Find Your Info Hijacker uses cookies and other tracking technologies for advertising. Help Me Find Your Info Hijacker will display pop-up advertisements and promotional and marketing material while the computer user is browsing the web.
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