SkyEmoji Ads
Posted: August 7, 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.
| Threat Level: | 2/10 |
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| Infected PCs: | 199 |
| First Seen: | July 29, 2015 |
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| Last Seen: | May 2, 2022 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
SkyEmoji is an unreliable application that the experts classify as Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). The reason for this designation is the discrepancy between the promised features and the actual performance. More particularly, the people behind this questionable software don't inform the users about all the adverse aspects adequately. SkyEmoji states that it will improve the online communication of its clients by unlocking hidden Skype emoticons. While it indeed gives access to some new emojis, the people you are chatting with will be unable to see them unless they also have SkyEmoji. As a result, the benefits of keeping this PUP are almost non-existent but the presence of some annoying side-effects is inevitable. This dubious tool creates an add-on and places it simultaneously in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. This act allows SkyEmoji to insert numerous ads to the sites you attend. Such performance may start to disturb you pretty soon as the new pop-ups, banners and interstitial ads come in vast amounts and are known to be aggressive. Their existence is often accompanied by performance-related issuesPerformance-related issues often accompany their existence – you may experience random drops of speed or freezes. The purpose of the marketing materials is to boost the traffic towards third-party partner sites. For the service, the developers of SkyEmoji earn referral commissions. Nothing guarantees that the sponsored domains are safe, so for the sake of keeping your PC clean and reliable you should stay away from them. The advice of the specialists is to delete SkyEmoji as soon as possible with a dedicated anti-malware solution.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\skemoji
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