PriceItDown Ads
Posted: July 30, 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: | 8 |
First Seen: | July 28, 2015 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
When you notice the name of PriceItDown, you may expect it to help you with the online purchases. However, you will most likely feel deceived soon after its installation. Although the developers of this tool promote it as a functioning shopping assistant, it is nothing more than adware. The sole reason for the existence of PriceItDown is to promote third-party pages. This performance pays off in the form of referral commissions whenever you click on the newly created ads. The questionable application may try to lure you into clicking on the ads by their content. They indeed offer various products and deals at a suspiciously low price, which may trigger your sense of curiosity. These sponsored materials are based on the available browser cookies, which are related to your surfing history. This way, you may start noticing user-relevant ads. You should avoid them because they may transfer you to potentially dangerous parts of the web. The marketing content generated by PriceItDown may fill your browser to a point when the functionality gets impaired. Wherever you go, you may notice endless pop-ups, banners, targeted videos and even interstitial ads, which cover the whole screen. Even if you switch over to another browser, you will face the same issues as PriceItDown affects Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox simultaneously. Although this annoying program may be very stubborn, a powerful malware removal tool will delete it quickly.
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