Pass to Post Ads

Posted: March 11, 2016

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:	89

First Seen:	March 11, 2016
Last Seen:	May 10, 2019
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Pass to Post is a suspicious extension that may be offered to you by third-party freeware. If you run the installer via the 'Advanced' guide, which is the recommended choice, you may notice its description. The authors of Pass to Post promote it as a shopping assistant. According to their words, Pass to Post should enhance your online purchases by offering special deals and price comparisons. In reality, this add-on is a typical adware that tries to benefit from your online actions. The course of action is pretty straightforward – whenever you click on an ad by Pass to Post, it will redirect you to partner Web pages. The administrators of these sites are willing to pay referral commissions to the developers of the adware in exchange for a steady incoming Web traffic. While both parties of these deals are winning, you may experience a lot of problems. First of all, the ads may not come in moderate amounts but huge quantities. You may notice pop-ups, banners, interstitial ads or other embedded multimedia elements in the majority of the sites you open. A lot of people report that their Web clients may be overwhelmed with unwanted commercial materials virtually, which may make your surfing sessions unpleasant. If particular circumstances are met, the browsers may even freeze for a few seconds or crash. The chances for these functionality errors to happen increase if your PC is older or you open several tabs simultaneously. Another problem is that a significant part of the ads by Pass to Post may be unreliable. For example, they may deceive you that you are the lucky visitor only to make you type your email address, which may result in spam. An even more disturbing scenario is that some links may transfer you to potentially questionable pages that may damage your system. Pass to Post may be far more stubborn than extensions, so you may not be unable to delete Pass to Post from Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer manually. If it happens, you should perform the removal process with a leading security program.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.

The following files were created in the system:

file.exe

File name: file.exe
Size: 309.37 KB (309376 bytes)
MD5: 6e8b61e0ee751dd83946c8c8e7a7610b
Detection count: 39
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 11, 2016

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{929CCCAF-39FB-4C5C-A66D-FA20F854B710}

Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%PROGRAMFILES%\Pass to Post%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Pass to Post%temp%\Pass to Post