KP Search Bear
Posted: January 26, 2015
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: | 11,651 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 754 |
First Seen: | January 26, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | September 8, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
KP Search Bear is yet another Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) with adware capabilities. Adware-related applications such as KP Search Bear often pose as useful products to enhance your browsing activities, but in reality, they are created to generate revenue for third parties. In order to generate revenue for adware creators, KP Search Bear presents hundreds of unwanted commercial advertisements that are based on collected data. Ad-supported products such as KP Search Bear may read, modify and collect all kinds of information for users from browsing queries to often visited websites. Data collection is an essential feature for a potentially unwanted application such as KP Search Bear as it is later used for marketing purposes and for generating proper ads.
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