Search.hfreeforms.co
Posted: August 16, 2017
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: | 8,636 |
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| Threat Level: | 5/10 |
| Infected PCs: | 9,582 |
| First Seen: | August 16, 2017 |
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| Last Seen: | March 2, 2025 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Search.hfreeforms.co is a page associated with the SearchFormsOnline browser extension. This utility is meant to help users find tax forms and similar documents quickly and easily. However, what users might not notice is that by installing SearchFormsOnline, they permit the program to modify their default new tab page. This results in having the user's new tab page set to Search.hfreeforms.co – a search engine that provides results from the Yahoo Search. In addition to this, Search.hfreeforms.co also appears to link users to online services and pages, which host the documents and forms that the tool is meant to make easier to find.
The SearchFormsOnline is marked as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) by researchers, and the websites linked to it are not considered to be harmful. If you encounter them on your computer, then you should remember that you don't need to be worried about your online security. However, keep in mind that if you wish to recover your new tab page, you will need to start by uninstalling the SearchFormsOnline extension. This should remove Search.hfreeforms.co from your new tab settings automatically, and recover your previous new tab.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Free Forms
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