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Posted: August 17, 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: | 8/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 64 |
First Seen: | August 17, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | May 14, 2020 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
If your browsers start loading certain pop-ups and banners labeled as "Ads by RoyalAds", your system is undoubtedly under the influence of adware. These questionable applications attach towards all available web clients as extensions. As a result, during your browsing sessions, you will be exposed to various commercial materials, regardless if you use Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. The adware named "Royal" may receive access to your machine during the installation of third-party freeware. Many programs with questionable legitimacy try to evade the attention of the user thanks to this delivery method, known as "bundling". Luckily, you can easily oppose this tactic as long as you perform the setup process through the "Custom" guide, which provides detailed information about all components. When the suspicious add-on settles into the PC, it will quickly change some settings of the web clients. It may replace the default homepage with another site, typically some low-quality search engine. As you travel from one page to another, you may notice excessive amounts of pop-ups, banners, interstitial ads and cleverly positioned in-text ads. Some of these marketing elements lead to e-commerce sites with unproven legitimacy while others encourage you to install some questionable software like unknown media players. The content of the new ads is based on your browsing history, which explains why you may find them user-relevant. However, they may take you towards unsafe platforms, so that it is not advisable to click on them. Fortunately, this adware is easy to remove in case you perform a system scan with an advanced security application.
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