Rally Toolbar
Posted: June 28, 2013
Threat Metric
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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.
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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: | 16,969 |
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Threat Level: | 5/10 |
Infected PCs: | 173 |
First Seen: | June 28, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | July 26, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Rally Toolbar is a toolbar/ browser hijacker, which is pushed via other freeware downloads (video recording/streaming, PDF creators or download-managers) that had packaged into their installation this browser hijacker, and when installed on a random corrupted PC, it will add Rally Toolbar, and replace the default homepage and default search engine with My.rally.io. Rally Toolbar will display annoying pop-up advertisements and sponsored links in search results of any legal search engine, and may grab search terms from the victim's search queries. The Rally Toolbar is used to boost traffic of the website by using blackhat SEO and make money from the pay-per-click technique. Rally Toolbar can also be classified as a PUP, potentially unwanted program. Rally Toolbar is also packed within the custom installer on many download websites, such as CNET, Brothersoft or Softonic, so if the PC user has downloaded an application from these websites, Rally might have also been installed during the application setup process. My.rally.io seems to be a reliable search engine but, in truth, it doesn't provide PC users with safe and trustworthy search results. My.rally.io contains numerous sponsored websites with the aim to advertise them.
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:rally.exe
File name: rally.exeSize: 1.13 MB (1138520 bytes)
MD5: 1ef45d5043574d7c8740348452d89035
Detection count: 24
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: July 1, 2013
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