Safer Browser
Posted: March 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.
Ranking: | 2,115 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 540,695 |
First Seen: | January 26, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | October 17, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Safer Browser is typical an adware infection that promotes third-party sites. The Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) enters in secrecy with the help of freeware or shareware. After that, the suspicious application hijacks the detected web browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. The user may notice that his default homepage is replaced by an alternative search engine such as maxwebsearch.com. It is not to be trusted because the top results may not correspond to the search queries as they are also ads. In addition, the person will likely see various pop-ups, coupons or banners every time he starts his browser. This behavior may be very annoying, but the ads may have even more negative consequences. Some of the sponsored pages may not be safe and may try to load malware to the visitor's PC. To avoid this and remove the irritating ads, users should think about removing Safer Browser with a reputable anti-malware tool.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
File name without pathSafer Browser.lnkRegexp file mask%WINDIR%\System32\Tasks\SaferBrowserProtectTask%WINDIR%\System32\Tasks\SaferUpdateTaskMachineCore%WINDIR%\System32\Tasks\SaferUpdateTaskMachineUA%WINDIR%\Tasks\SaferUpdateTaskMachineCore.job%WINDIR%\Tasks\SaferUpdateTaskMachineUA.jobHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Classes\AppID\SaferUpdate.exeSOFTWARE\Classes\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\{9E357C12-4CA8-43F1-8EEC-7B65F6F532E3}SOFTWARE\Classes\Safer.OneClickCtrl.9SOFTWARE\Classes\Safer.Update3WebControl.3SOFTWARE\Classes\SaferHTMLSOFTWARE\Classes\SaferUpdate.CoCreateAsyncSOFTWARE\Classes\SaferUpdate.CoreClassSOFTWARE\Classes\SaferUpdate.CoreClass.1SOFTWARE\Classes\SaferUpdate.CoreMachineClassSOFTWARE\Classes\SaferUpdate.CoreMachineClass.1SOFTWARE\Classes\SaferUpdate.CredentialDialogMachineSOFTWARE\Classes\SaferUpdate.CredentialDialogMachine.1.0SOFTWARE\Classes\SaferUpdate.OnDemandCOMClassMachineSOFTWARE\Classes\SaferUpdate.OnDemandCOMClassMachine.1.0SOFTWARE\Classes\SaferUpdate.OnDemandCOMClassMachineFallbackSOFTWARE\Classes\SaferUpdate.OnDemandCOMClassMachineFallback.1.0SOFTWARE\Classes\Technologies.OneClickProcessLauncherMachineSOFTWARE\Classes\Technologies.OneClickProcessLauncherMachine.1.0SOFTWARE\Clients\StartMenuInternet\Safer BrowserSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\SaferUpdate.exeSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\SaferBrowserProtectTaskSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\SaferUpdateTaskMachineCoreSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\SaferUpdateTaskMachineUASOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\safer.exeSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\SaferBrowserIsDefaultSOFTWARE\MozillaPlugins\@update.safer.com/Safer Update;version=3SOFTWARE\MozillaPlugins\@update.safer.com/Safer Update;version=9SOFTWARE\RegisteredApplications\Safer BrowserSOFTWARE\Safer TechnologiesSoftware\Safer Technologies\Safer BrowserSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Classes\AppID\SaferUpdate.exeSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Clients\StartMenuInternet\Safer BrowserSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\SaferUpdate.exeSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\safer.exeSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MozillaPlugins\@update.safer.com/Safer Update;version=3SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MozillaPlugins\@update.safer.com/Safer Update;version=9SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Safer TechnologiesSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Safer Technologies\Safer BrowserHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Safer Browser
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