Incognito Start Button
Posted: August 1, 2017
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: | 393 |
First Seen: | August 1, 2017 |
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Last Seen: | June 26, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Incognito Start Button is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP), which works as a browser extension that is only compatible with Google Chrome. As the name suggests, this extension is meant to provide users with a neat 'Incognito' button that they can hit whenever they want to go into Chrome's Incognito mode. The add-on works flawlessly, but it appears that the majority of anti-virus product vendors have added it to their databases as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). This is probably owed to the fact that tools like the Incognito Start Button often may cause undesired side-effects such as injecting ads in active Web browser windows or replacing the Chrome's configuration by including a new homepage or an alternative new tab page. While the Incognito Start Button does not perform any of these actions at the moment, it is possible that a future update might bring these annoying changes.
The installation of the Incognito Start Button happens via direct installation, and we have not been informed of cases in which the Incognito Start Button software was installed via an alternative installation technique. If you have the Incognito Start Button up and running and you'd like to install it, then we advise you to take care of this task with the assistance of a suitable PC security. Although the Incognito Start Button is not unsafe, removing it this way can guarantee that all of its components will be erased for good.
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