Targetop Ads
Posted: October 12, 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: | 8/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 14 |
First Seen: | October 12, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | July 24, 2020 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
If some intrusive 'Ads by Targetop' start to bother you, you should know there is adware on your PC. These commercial materials are nothing like what you may be accustomed to seeing. Since their origin can be traced to a particular web extension, and they are not a part of the site itself, you may notice the same ads on more than a few pages. These ads are there for one simple reason, which is to boost the popularity of partner platforms. The owners of the sponsored sites may benefit in different ways. They may get visitors to whom they may attempt to sell stuff, or they may simply try to gain a higher score in the search engines. Unfortunately, there is a third category of web pages that may achieve their goal if you load them –potentially harmful domains. These sites may encourage you to install questionable or harmful software or try to scam you. Since you can never guess what site the ads by Targetop will load, you should stay away from all pop-ups, banners, animations and interstitial ads. However, doing so may not be enough to neglect the presence of Targetop. This adware also may change essential parts of the configuration of your web clients. When you launch Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer, you may notice a different homepage than the one you set manually. The new homepage may be some unknown and unreliable search engine that display inaccurate results to promote partners. The huge quantity of commercial materials may be the reason for the web clients to start working too slowly. To prevent potential functionality malfunctions and guarantee the security of your PC, you should perform the necessary measures to delete Targetop.
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