Scannewsupdate.info
Posted: September 24, 2018
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: | 45 |
First Seen: | September 8, 2023 |
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OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Scannewsupdate.info is a questionable website at best that has been deemed by computer security experts as a browser hijacker inclined to displaying unwanted content or at least questionable alert messages. The actions of Scannewsupdate.info are random where the site may cause redirect to sites with unwanted content or display bogus notifications to warn PC users of detected issues. The supposed issues displayed in alert messages are bogus and may entice some users to click on them, which will then cause a redirect to a site that may be malicious in content.
In some cases, Scannewsupdate.info may load automatically as a default home page or new tab page. Such a process is often due to the computer user unknowingly loading components associated with Scannewsupdate.info, which may take place when installing random freeware apps that come bundled with add-on software.
Computer users finding Scannewsupdate.info to be an annoyance and of no good use will want to obtain and utilize an antimalware tool to automatically detect and eliminate all components associated with Scannewsupdate.info. After doing so, the web browser application that was previously affected will no longer randomly load Scannewsupdate.info or load the browser hijacker site as a default home page or new tab page.
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