Safesurfs.com
Posted: July 24, 2016
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: | 8,401 |
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Threat Level: | 5/10 |
Infected PCs: | 6,085 |
First Seen: | October 13, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | December 10, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Safesurfs.com site has been found to be a browser hijacker that may be set as a default homepage within your web browser. The Safesurfs.com site itself isn’t directly harmful to your computer. However, there are related components that may have installed due to loading freeware applications that have caused the Safesurfs.com site to load as your default homepage. Use of the Safesurfs.com site, which is a basic internet search engine that queries results through a custom Yahoo search, may return relevant results based on your keywords but surrounded with advertisements or sponsored links. The creators of Safesurfs.com may have designed the page to entice clicks on search results or sponsored ads as part of a pay-per-click scheme to earn them money based on web traffic. Finding, disabling, and then removing the various components related to Safesurfs.com, which may be installed as web browser add-ons or browser extensions, is necessary to stop the Safesurfs.com site from automatically loading as your default home page. Upon removal of Safesurfs.com components, you may then set your desired default homepage and eliminate the risk of Safesurfs.com modifying your Internet settings.
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