Search Tuner Extension
Posted: January 22, 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.
Ranking: | 2,792 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 389 |
First Seen: | August 7, 2023 |
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Last Seen: | October 16, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Search Tuner is a Chrome browser extension that also happens to be a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). What does the Search Tuner extension do, exactly? Let's try to find out!
Visiting the extension's page on the Chrome Web Store and looking at its description reveals absolutely nothing about its functionality. The official description says that the Search Tuner redirects searches and 'works hard' to give you better search results and better browsing and searching 'experience.' This means absolutely nothing to the user and gives no workable description of what Search Tuner does. Installing the extension, however, reveals what the Search Tuner really does. After the Search Tuner finds its way onto your system, the Search Tuner places an icon on the right side of your navigation panel. You may not find anything different in your browser's behavior at first, as your homepage and new tab content remain unchanged. However, every time you use the Omnibox – the same box that Chrome uses to display the address of the page you're viewing currently – your search will no longer use your browser's default search provider and, instead, be forwarded through search.searchtuner.com. The search will culminate in a Yahoo Search results page for your query, but Search Tuner will now have access to all your searches and be able to store them.
The Search Tuner requires rights to read and change the data shown on the websites you visit, as well as communicate with 'cooperating websites,' possibly to use your search queries for later targeted advertising. Apart from having a Chrome Web Store page, the Search Tuner also may be distributed in software bundles, where it may come packaged with legitimate software, piggy-backing inside the same installation package. Thankfully, the Search Tuner is easy to uninstall and can be removed either by right-clicking the icon in the navigation panel or through the Chrome's Extension Manager.
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