Listen To The Radio Now Extension
Posted: January 22, 2018
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.
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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: | 8,102 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 1,689 |
First Seen: | December 9, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | October 4, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Listen To The Radio Now Extension is a browser add-on for Google Chrome, whose purpose is to give its users access to hundreds of free online radio stations that they can listen to through their Web browser directly. While this is undoubtedly useful, there are countless online websites and services that offer radio streams without asking you to install 3rd-party browser extensions. Why you should opt for a service that does not require any installation is because by accepting to install the Listen To The Radio Now Extension, you also will permit it to tamper with your Web browser's settings. While the changes that this add-on brings are not harmful, they may turn out to be rather annoying since they might diminish the quality of your Web searches and force you to see websites that you might not be interested in.
The Listen To The Radio Now Extension has been categorized as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) by multiple security product vendors, which is not a surprise considering that its publisher is Polarity Technologies LTD, a company linked to a long list of dubious programs. The installation of the Listen To The Radio Now Extension is likely to lead to changes such as:
- Replacing the Chrome's default search aggregator with an alternative one linked to Polarity.
- This replacement might have an adverse impact on the quality of the search results the users see.
- Changing the default Chrome New Tab to promote a website with questionable features and Web search functions.
If the Listen To The Radio Now Extension is not the software you are looking for, but you have already installed it, then it is recommended to remove it as soon as possible. This can be accomplished either via manual removal or with the help of a credible PC security product.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}ListenToTheRadioNow
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