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Posted: October 27, 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: | 1,910 |
|---|---|
| Threat Level: | 1/10 |
| Infected PCs: | 18,704 |
| First Seen: | October 27, 2015 |
|---|---|
| Last Seen: | March 9, 2025 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Simple New Tab is a useless web add-on that you should not install. First of all, it doesn't offer any feature that your browser cannot achieve, so you don’t need third-party software. Second, this plugin is adware, which means that its developers may benefit from some rather intrusive online ads. The Simple New Tab should let you customize new tabs of your web clients. You should be able to place your favorite site there. All of the popular browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer have this function in their engines, so there is no need to download any additional extension. When you know that the Simple New Tab lacks real functionality, it is not surprising that its creators may spread it in software bundles alongside freeware. This fact explains why the unreliable add-on may evade the attention of the PC users sometimes. The adware may change your default homepage automatically. The first site to notice when you launch your browser may be an unknown search platform. You should abstain from using such sites because they may display manipulated results to generate traffic towards their partners. The Simple New Tab may inserts ads in various formats: you may detect some pop-ups, banners or videos that start as soon as you enter the page. After the installation of this extension, your browser may start working more slowly than usual due to the resource consumption from the multimedia elements. A particularly worrying aspect of this adware is that it may transfer you to unsafe sites that you should avoid. The ads by the Simple New Tab cannot be disabled as long as the add-on is present, so you should use reliable security software to delete it.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
CLSID{5C2DD58F-613F-4580-8AC0-F10D760AF938}{8DAA9564-C7BF-43E1-ADB9-17B44DA980A6}{B47A69DE-9B38-4EC0-996E-99F90C0F8CA5}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{5C2DD58F-613F-4580-8AC0-F10D760AF938}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Extensions\{59F39B89-94C3-44C5-B903-9A6B85C32921}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{5C2DD58F-613F-4580-8AC0-F10D760AF938}Software\SimpleNewTabSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{5C2DD58F-613F-4580-8AC0-F10D760AF938}
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