Lookout Deals
Posted: April 23, 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.
Threat Level: | 8/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 197 |
First Seen: | April 23, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | May 11, 2021 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Lookout Deals is yet another adware infection that installs as a web browser add-on or extension. Users may acquire Lookout Deals when downloading free applications or download it themselves. Typically, adware developers utilize questionable delivery methods for their products in order to distribute them to a large number of PCs. Once infected, the Lookout Deals adware extension automatically keeps track of your online activities, habits, and browsing history. Later, annoying ads based on that information are generated by Lookout Deals. Computer security researchers have discovered that ads by Lookout Deals are trying to look like deals from lookoutdeals.com. Ads and deals by Lookout Deals are considered unreliable because they are known to redirect users to potentially harmful domains, websites that promote questionable content, etc. Instead of clicking on ads by Lookout Deals it is advised to utilize a trusted anti-spyware tool.
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