Search Privacy
Posted: June 27, 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: | 4,584 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 27,754 |
First Seen: | June 27, 2016 |
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Last Seen: | October 17, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Search Privacy is adware associated a browser hijacker, website info.search-privacy.club, which is known for displaying random advertisements or links that may cause unwanted redirects. Search Privacy as a browser hijacker site may load automatically upon opening up random add-ons or having browser plugins or extensions installed from bundled software. Moreover, Search Privacy may lead to unwanted sites that promote questionable content.
Computer users faced with Search Privacy and notice the sites related to Search Privacy loading automatically may make a choice to eliminate Search Privacy and its components by the use of an antimalware application. Doing such will stop all redirects or ads from displaying that are related to Search Privacy. Expert computer users may opt to eliminate the add-ons or exertions related to Search Privacy manually by finding each of them within their Internet Settings or browser add-ons location.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
File name without pathhttps_info.searchprivacy.co_0.localstoragehttps_info.searchprivacy.co_0.localstorage-journal
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