Internet Blast

Posted: December 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.

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:	2/10
Infected PCs:	30

First Seen:	December 18, 2013
Last Seen:	January 10, 2019
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Internet Blast is adware that uses your Web browser as a vehicle for loading extra advertising content. Although Internet Blast's advertisements provide some revenue for its creators, they don't offer any advantages to the person who's forced to view them, and deleting Internet Blast almost always should be your default reaction to Internet Blast. In the meantime, while you're handling Internet Blast's advertisements, you may want to watch for some of the most common advertisement-based threats that malware researchers see so often, such as fake software updates and other means of installing threats through false pretenses.

The Add-On that Has a Blast Exploiting Your Browser

Although any relatives Internet Blast might have still are being determined, Internet Blast doesn't try hard to distinguish itself from the other emergent adware programs that malware researchers examine on a weekly basis. During its installation, Internet Blast may claim that its features are to the benefit of your browser, but Internet Blast's advertisements actually are designed for its own profitability, with few or no benefits in terms of price comparisons or special offers. Malware researchers still are investigating the affected browsers for Internet Blast, but popular Windows browsers are expected to be at the greatest risk.

Internet Blast's installation is followed up by various browser changes that force you to become a viewer of potentially hazardous content from third parties. Shown here are some of the most well-used formats for Internet Blast and other adware programs:

Injected text links that often are referred to as inline text advertisements.
Injected banners, expanding product price checks and other graphical elements.
The justifiably infamous pop-up advertisements.
Advertisements that are inserted as 'extra' search results, although these results aren't sorted by Internet Blast for optimal relevance.

Sending the Internet Blast Add-On Blasting Off Again

Safe methods of removing Internet Blast may use whatever brand of anti-malware, anti-adware or similar security product you find acceptable. However, manual deletion of Internet Blast and other adware usually is to be avoided, since most PUPs aren't coded to uninstall themselves cleanly. The sooner you get around to deleting Internet Blast from your PC, the sooner you'll greatly lower your risks of being exposed to unsafe advertisements, which don't necessarily need your permission to hurt your machine.

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Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%PROGRAMFILES%\Internet Blast%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Internet Blast