Messenger Plus Toolbar

Posted: September 5, 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.

Ranking:	7,723
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	7,333

First Seen:	September 5, 2013
Last Seen:	October 16, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The Messenger Plus Toolbar is a browser add-on that modifies your browser to promote Conduit-affiliated websites while claiming to offer improvements to your overall Web-browsing experience. Because SpywareRemove.com malware experts have found most Conduit-based toolbars, including Messenger Plus Toolbars, to provide minimal or no benefits, you usually should remove the Messenger Plus Toolbar from your computer unless you have a well thought-out reason for keeping the Messenger Plus Toolbar installed. Like many other Conduit toolbars, the Messenger Plus Toolbar does have a noted history of resisting deletion by normal means, making anti-malware programs your easiest solution for deleting the Messenger Plus Toolbar completely.

The Messenger Plus Toolbar: Adding Some Substantial Minuses to Your Web-Browsing Life

The Messenger Plus Toolbar is another Conduit-brand add-on that changes your search engine and homepage of preference automatically – supposedly as part of an overall package for improving your Web-browsing experience, but in reality as a needless modification that's little different from a common browser hijack. Besides proving homepage and search changes that redirect you to Conduit.com and affiliated sites, the Messenger Plus Toolbar is difficult to remove and can't easily be deactivated through your browser's add-on manager (like any normal toolbar).

Conduit-related websites such as those promoted by the Messenger Plus Toolbar's browser changes usually are not immediate hazards to your PC's safety. However, a prolonged state of being unable to control your browser's searches or homepage is a potential security risk regardless of which sites your browser's forced to load.

Although SpywareRemove.com malware researchers only have verified Messenger Plus Toolbar as being compatible with Internet Explorer, most Conduit toolbars also are compatible with Firefox and Chrome. As far as its distribution systems go, the Messenger Plus Toolbar's distribution vectors are likely to consist of software bundles that install the Messenger Plus Toolbar during the installation process of unrelated programs, such as free games, PDF utilities or movie players.

The End of the Messenger Plus Toolbar's Browser-Hijacking Equation

While the Messenger Plus Toolbar is heavily derivative of other Conduit-based Potentially Unwanted Programs (or PUPs) and has little originality about it, the Messenger Plus Toolbar is an effective nuisance that manages to control which sites your browser loads without allowing you to get rid of the Messenger Plus Toolbar easily. Other Conduit toolbars that operate along similar lines include the Goofler Toolbar, the Midicair Toolbar, the iWin Toolbar, the Entrusted Toolbar, the Trustworthy Toolbar, the OurWorld Toolbar and the Movies Toolbar – as just a few recent examples of this large family.

To remove the Messenger Plus Toolbar from your PC as efficiently as possible, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers suggest the use of strong anti-malware programs that have good histories for detecting and removing browser toolbar-based PC threats. Once the Messenger Plus Toolbar is deleted entirely, your browser's homepage and search engine settings should operate as usual once again.

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Threat Metric

The Messenger Plus Toolbar: Adding Some Substantial Minuses to Your Web-Browsing Life

The End of the Messenger Plus Toolbar's Browser-Hijacking Equation

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