Price-Hero
Posted: January 19, 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: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 52 |
First Seen: | January 19, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | January 10, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Price-Hero is an adware-related application developed by F1rstOffer Ltd that installs a browser extension. Applications such as Price-Hero are mainly distributed in a bundle with other free programs. Such bundles are referred to as 'Pay-Per-Install' because third parties provide their software in order to increase utilization and thus make gains. Programs such as Price-Hero also may have an official website, where users may download the software themselves. The official website of Price-Hero is price-hero.com. Price-Hero pretends to be a useful application that enhances your shopping experience by finding the best deals on the Internet, thus saving money and time for users. It turns out that applications such as Price-Hero are not as useful as advertised, they are mostly created for advertising purposes and monetization.
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