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Posted: November 25, 2015
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: | 14,692 |
|---|---|
| Threat Level: | 8/10 |
| Infected PCs: | 351 |
| First Seen: | November 25, 2015 |
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| Last Seen: | February 14, 2025 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Nowadays, the administrators of webpages may include ads to cover some of their expenses. While there may not be nothing wrong with this process, you should know that the commercial materials with the slogan 'Powered by Serpens' may not be displayed by the sites you visit. They may appear when there is adware in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. The new commercial materials may not be as reliable as the page-based ones, so you should proceed with caution. The questionable Web add-on called Serpens is one of those applications that may count mainly on the bundling method to reach PC users. Serpens may be included into executable files of third-party free programs that will promote it as a helpful shopping assistant. The statement that the adware will let you buy the products you need at a better price is quite doubtful.
The problem is that its partners may be suspicious and unreliable. Even if they offer you a lower price, they may not hold their end of the deal. In addition, some of the pop-ups that Serpens creates may ask you to take part in surveys that try to obtain your email address, which may in turn result in spam. Besides pop-ups, this adware also may create banners, animations and interstitial ads. It may even include video commercials in the webpages, which could increase the loading time significantly. Serpens may record the sites that you visit and the searches you perform. This information may provide all the necessary data to narrow down your interests, so the coupons and vouchers may be surprisingly user-relevant. However, for safety reasons it is better not to click on them. If you wish to stop the annoying ads from loading, you should use a powerful anti-malware solution to eliminate the adware from your PC.
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