Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups

Posted: May 30, 2012

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

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:	358

First Seen:	May 30, 2012
Last Seen:	July 16, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups are symptoms of infection by Text Enhance adware. Text Enhance Ads isn't necessarily geared to expose you to malicious content and may simply offer additional advertisements and links to safe sites, but under most circumstances, Text Enhance Ads, like all adware programs, can be considered an unnecessary nuisance. Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups symptoms usually occur in the form of keywords or text-based links that are added to normally-unlinked website content, and Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups is functional in multiple types of web browsers. Even though Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups can be included in legitimate application installers, it's recommended that you remove Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups with anti-malware software, since the Text Enhance program that displays Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups will avoid normal uninstall techniques (such as the Control Panel).

Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups – When That Trickle of Ads Becomes a Tsunami

Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups are always symptoms of infection by the low-level adware threat that's known as Text Enhance. Identifying whether or not you have Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups is relatively simple, since Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups often display a 'Text Enhance' logo in their content. Like most adware, Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups aren't very subtle, and Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups may occur in such large streams that they actually interfere with normal web-browsing activities. Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups have been known to manifest in the following ways:

Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups may appear as green hyperlinks that are added to 'relevant' keywords and phrases. Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups links only function for the actual text – images that happen to include words (for instance) are safe from unwanted Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups.
Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups can also appear in pop-up window formats, especially when you hover your cursor over one of the aforementioned hyperlinks.
Finally, Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups may also appear as additional advertisements that are inserted into a popular website's normal format such as Youtube.

Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups may include potentially risky content, such as questionable surveys and job opportunities that are often used to disguise phishing attacks or techniques for distributing malicious software. However, by themselves, Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups are only rated as low-level PC threats due to their functions being limited to adware features.

Getting an Ad-Free Browser Back from the Iron Hand of Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups

The Text Enhance website recommends that you disable Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups by using a cookie management system, but this simply suppresses the symptoms of Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups while keeping the relevant adware installed on your PC. SpywareRemove.com malware analysts don't see any reason to play by such questionable rules, particularly since the program that displays Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups refuses normal software-removal methods in the first place! Also, notable is the fact that wiping your cookies will restore Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups, which is undesirable for most PC users.

However, suitable anti-malware programs shouldn't experience any difficulties in deleting Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups and their corresponding Text Enhance software. Adware like Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups software is often bundled with legitimate programs or browser add-ons, and we especially warn against using the I Want This toolbar, which is confirmed vehicle for Text Enhance Ads\Pop-Ups.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION\TextEnhance-bg.exeSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\82261eaaSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\82261eaa

Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%ProgramFiles(x86)%\TextEnhance