Live Player Toolbar

Posted: June 19, 2013

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

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:	2/10
Infected PCs:	78

First Seen:	June 19, 2013
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Live Player Toolbar is an adware program that's distributed as an add-on for allowing you to view fake sporting event streams. Ballgame fans who are reckless or desperate enough to install the Live Player Toolbar will find that, instead of seeing new football or baseball matches, their browser has been forced to display unrelated pop-up advertisements. Because the Live Player Toolbar's distribution has risen as of this month, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers warn any sporting enthusiasts to be cautious about unusual movie-streaming links and use anti-malware software as it's needed for deleting the Live Player Toolbar – which has a history of evading all of the standardized software uninstallation techniques.

The Live Player Toolbar: Streaming the 'Action' of Advertising to Your Browser

The Live Player Toolbar, often referred to as Live Player 3.2 (although SpywareRemove.com malware experts found no previous versions of the toolbar) contains functions that all are negative for your PC, but still uses manual installations to be distributed to new computers. Through fraudulent marketing practices that promote the Live Player Toolbar as a movie-streaming extension, the Live Player Toolbar misleads its victims into installing the Live Player Toolbar deliberately – and appears to be closely related to pirated sources for streaming media, including various malicious websites.

Many similar PC threats include compatibility for several browsers, but SpywareRemove.com malware experts so far only have confirmed the Live Player Toolbar attacks for Google's Chrome. Once the Live Player Toolbar is been installed, the Live Player Toolbar generates advertises automatically for Chrome in the form of typical pop-ups, but also has been known to include the unusual side effect of temporarily disabling the infected PC's mouse input. This also is a convenient time to remind all readers that advertising content promoted by malicious programs like the Live Player Toolbar always should be considered potentially malicious as well (a warning that's emphasized by the Live Player Toolbar's advertising preferences, which focus on sports betting services).

Making Live Player Toolbar Kick the Bucket

Once it's clear that the Live Player Toolbar is a malicious adware program that always should be removed on sight, you may find yourself struggling against the actual uninstall process. The Live Player Toolbar does appear to have some minor defenses against basic anti-malware products, but SpywareRemove.com malware researchers haven't witnessed any functions that would imply that the Live Player Toolbar is capable of sophisticated attacks on the level of a rootkit or backdoor Trojan.

Disabling the Live Player Toolbar should be the first step you take in handling a Live Player Toolbar infection, and it usually can be done by booting your computer into Safe Mode (although other options also are available). With Live Player Toolbar preventing from stalling the disinfection of your computer, SpywareRemove.com malware experts then encourage using a trustworthy and updated anti-malware product to delete the Live Player Toolbar and its browser changes.

While other browsers besides Chrome are, so far, unaffected by the Live Player Toolbar, the presence of the Live Player Toolbar on your PC is a security risk that shouldn't simply be ignored, rather than removed.

Live Player Toolbar

Threat Metric

The Live Player Toolbar: Streaming the 'Action' of Advertising to Your Browser

Making Live Player Toolbar Kick the Bucket

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