Similar Products
Posted: September 23, 2013
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: | 2/10 |
|---|---|
| Infected PCs: | 67 |
| First Seen: | September 23, 2013 |
|---|---|
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Similar Products is an adware program that may display unwanted pop-up advertisements, coupons and sponsored links via a pop-up box on Youtube, Google, Facebook, Amazon and other websites that PC users are visiting. Similar Products pop-up ads will be displayed as boxes, which contain numerous coupons that are available or as underlined keywords, which when clicked will display an advertisement that claims it is sent to the PC user by Powered by Similar Products Deals. Similar Products is produced by cybercrooks with the only goal to most likely benefit from raised website traffic and click fraud. Similar Products may generate web traffic and gather sales leads for other misleading commercial websites. Similar Products is an extension for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome that may usually be embedded when Internet users install other free software products, such as PDF creators, download-managers or video recording/streaming, that had packaged into their installation Similar Products. When PC users install these free software products, they may also install Similar Products. When installed, whenever the computer user will visit Facebook, Google, Youtube or any other similar websites, Similar Products may display advertising banners and sponsored links. Similar Products will also modify the default homepage and search engine on the hijacked web browser.
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