Ultimate Shopping Toolbar
Posted: November 23, 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: | 5,856 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 14,275 |
First Seen: | November 23, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | October 14, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Ultimate Shopping is a free toolbar that may work equally well in all browsers. As its name suggests, this application is presented as software that should let you find the best shopping sites and deals in a convenient way. In reality, the presence of this program may be unrequested by the user and its impact on the system may be far from helpful. Ultimate Shopping is adware, which means that its primary goal is to show you online ads. The users may encounter the commercial materials during their surfing sessions regularly. The toolbar indeed contains some buttons for quick access to shopping platforms, but it also may put additional banners, pop-ups and interstitial ads webpages. You may locate these marketing elements even in sites that were free from ads before the installation of the Ultimate Shopping Toolbar.
The potentially unpleasant consequences of the new ads are several. First of all, they may easily irritate you because they may be typically intrusive and aggressive. Second and more important, these new marketing materials may lead to a direct drop in the performance of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. The reason for the potential functionality issues lies in the fact that the pop-ups, blinking animations and especially media-heavy videos may seize a considerable amount of system resources. The most important reason not to keep Ultimate Shopping Toolbar is that the legitimacy of the sponsored pages is doubtful. The ads may redirect to compromised platforms occasionally which may cause damage. Although it is associated with advertising activity, this toolbar is not threatening, so it may be found in the Chrome Web Store. However, it may be part of the installers of third-party freeware, so some PC users may load it unwillingly. To remove the adware efficiently, you should consider using special security software.
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