Your Interests Now Toolbar
Posted: November 30, 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: | 5/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 21 |
First Seen: | November 9, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | February 10, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Your Interests Now Toolbar by the notorious software developer Informer Technologies Inc is adware that may place many ads in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. The questionable program offers only one feature, which you can achieve directly through your browser's setting without the need to download anything. The Your Interests Now Toolbar should supposedly offer you instant access to famous platforms like Pinterest, Instagram and Dribble. The toolbar serves just like the regular bookmarks bar, so it may not assist you in any way. The fact that the Your Interests Now Toolbar lacks real functionality is only one reason not to keep the adware. It also may change the configuration of your browsers in an adverse way. The first modification that you may notice concerns to your homepage.
The suspicious program may substitute the site of your choice with some suspicious search engine that may show sponsored links as opposed to the best matches to your terms. As you peruse the Web, you may notice increased amounts of commercial materials in different shapes. The adware may create new banners, pop-ups, interstitial ads and videos. This advertising process may cause various issues. First of all, many PC users may get annoyed by seeing the same unrequested discounts and vouchers again and again. Second, the loading time of the sites may increase considerably due to the resource consumption of some ads. The third problem concerns to the partner network of the Your Interests Now Toolbar. Since the legitimacy of the promoted platforms remains unconfirmed, you may enter some potentially threatening pages accidentally. If you didn't download this adware from its official site or the Chrome Web Store, it might have entered together with other freeware. The experts suggest a system scan with reputable security software to delete this suspicious toolbar.
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