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Posted: April 8, 2016
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: | 178 |
First Seen: | April 8, 2016 |
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Last Seen: | May 2, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
WizzAppChecker is a useless application that may create a lot of problems for you. Its developers promote WizzAppChecker as a reliable security tool that is capable of protecting your PC from threats. According to them, WizzAppChecker can shield you from hacker attacks and guarantee your privacy. The tool also is expected to prevent the loading of potentially harmful Web pages. In reality, however, WizzAppChecker is not legit security software so that WizzAppChecker may not achieve the promised features. Its creators misguide the PC users about the performance of their product intentionally to promote its installation. If the person agrees to load WizzAppChecker, the developers may start receiving revenues shortly afterward. The unreliable application is adware that may include unwanted commercial materials in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. The new ads may obtain all kinds of shapes: they may be pop-ups, pop-under, transitional ads, interstitial ads, eye-catching animations, embedded videos materials or hyperlinked words in the text. Not all of them may have the 'Powered by WizzAppChecker' slogan, so you may expect them to belong the currently viewed page. However, it may not take you too long to notice that even sites that were add-free previously are now filled with coupons, daily deals and exclusive offers. These unwanted marketing elements may cover a substantial part of your screen. Their mere existence may cause you annoyance, but you may face far more serious issues as well. The adware may worsen the performance of your browsers. You may experience various glitches starting from an increased loading time and ending with sporadic crashes. The exact problems depend on the hardware of your PC, and the number of tabs you open at the same time. The ads by WizzAppChecker are not considered to be safe. Some of them may redirect you to pages that ask you to install harmful software so that it is advisable to ignore the intrusive commercial materials. You should proceed with a full scan of your system with a suitable security solution to eliminate this adware.
Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:WizzAppChecker-widget.exe
File name: WizzAppChecker-widget.exeSize: 2.48 MB (2481377 bytes)
MD5: 6da64446f278e1f40b559af28225ee79
Detection count: 2
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: January 8, 2020
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\WizzAppCheckerSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\WizzAppChecker
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