Walermis
Posted: October 3, 2013
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: | 61 |
First Seen: | October 3, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | May 10, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Walermis is adware, which is advertised via numerous unsafe freeware and shareware downloads and, once installed on the computer system, it may change the affected web browser's settings. Walermis may replace the default start page and search provider with a certain commercial website created by attackers to probably boost website traffic and make easy money from the pay-per-click technique. Walermis may display coupons, pop-up advertisements and sponsored links in hacked search results in any genuine search engine and may gather search terms from the target computer user's search queries. Walermis may spread together with various free software products such as video recording/streaming, download-managers or PDF creators that had bundled into their installation Walermis. When the PC user installs any free application, he may also rashly agree to install Walermis on the computer.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{613eb553-f054-4de0-a091-364f9100b3c8}
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