Search Web
Posted: July 27, 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.
Threat Level: | 10/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 3,612 |
First Seen: | July 27, 2017 |
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Last Seen: | November 19, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Search Web is a browser extension, which is offered by Searchsafelp.com. The website found there is rather simple, and all it contains is a snippet of text accompanied by a download button, which is probably supposed to lead users to the Search Web's download page. However, clicking the download button does nothing, and a look at the source code of the page reveals that the link to the Chrome Store is indeed there. This means that the extension was probably removed from the Chrome Store due to violation of the Terms of Service, which will not be a surprise considering that the Search Web is detected as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) by reputable computer security tools.
According to the Search Web's website, this extension is meant to help users by protecting their online privacy and hiding their search queries from marketing companies. It is a wide-known fact that popular search engines like Yahoo, Bing, Google, and others may use the statistics of their users to enhance the quality of their advertising campaigns and other monetization strategies. However, this activity is not harmful certainly, and you can rest assured that extensions like the Search Web will not help you avoid the data mining techniques major search aggregators use.
The installation of the Search Web leads to only one notable change – the extension will modify the Chrome's settings so that the default new tab page and search aggregator might be changed to a search engine associated with the Search Web. Unfortunately, because of the Search Web's deletion from the Chrome Store, security experts are unable to test the extension and see how it performs. However, since the Search Web is categorized as a PUP, our advice is to get rid of it either by manual removal or with the assistance of a credible security tool.
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