Koala Personal Search
Posted: October 10, 2014
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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 |
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Infected PCs: | 148 |
First Seen: | October 10, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | January 5, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Koala Personal Search is an adware program that is susceptible to loading up several advertisements as pop-ups or banners attempting to offer random services for searching the internet. The loading of Koala Personal Search may take place from installing random freeware apps or bundled software. In such a case, Koala Personal Search may then run in the background while it displays several advertisements becoming a rather intrusive and may reduce performance of some web browsers. Stopping Koala Personal Search ads from loading may require use of a program designed to detect and remove adware from a Windows PC.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
The following newly produced Registry Values are:
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\AppDataLow\Software\Koala Personal SearchSoftware\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Software\Koala Personal Search
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\AppDataLow\Software\Koala Personal SearchSoftware\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Software\Koala Personal Search
Additional Information
The following directories were created:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\becbpceijmglngdofmnjmoikmfocdbmh%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\bfgfnlfiflojdiakflihdeonnoaapdhc%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Local Extension Settings\bfgfnlfiflojdiakflihdeonnoaapdhc%PROGRAMFILES%\Koala Personal Search%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Koala Personal Search
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