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Threat Scorecard
EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecard
EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecards are assessment reports for different malware threats which have been collected and analyzed by our research team. EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecards evaluate and rank threats using several metrics including real-world and potential risk factors, trends, frequency, prevalence, and persistence. EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecards are updated regularly based on our research data and metrics and are useful for a wide range of computer users, from end users seeking solutions to remove malware from their systems to security experts analyzing threats.
EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecards display a variety of useful information, including:
Ranking: The ranking of a particular threat in EnigmaSoft’s Threat Database.
Severity Level: The determined severity level of an object, represented numerically, based on our risk modeling process and research, as explained in our Threat Assessment Criteria.
Infected Computers: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on infected computers as reported by SpyHunter.
See also Threat Assessment Criteria.
| Ranking: | 5,500 |
| Threat Level: | 20 % (Normal) |
| Infected Computers: | 1,078 |
| First Seen: | May 9, 2022 |
| Last Seen: | September 23, 2023 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Users that notice unwanted redirects to the unfamiliar Ursearch.net website, may have an intrusive PUP (Potentially Unwanted Programs) lurking on their computers. These invasive applications are typically distributed through questionable methods, such as shady software bundles or fake installers. Furthermore, they are designed to monetize their presence on the user's device by running annoying ad campaigns or causing redirects to a promoted website.
The exact behavior of the PUP promoting Ursearch.net could vary, based on different factors of the computer. As such, some users may observe the threat causing a flood of untrustworthy advertisements, while others also could experience the aforementioned redirects to the sponsored page. In both cases, caution is required. The generated advertisements are likely to be for misleading destinations, including fake giveaways, phishing pages, portals spreading more PUP disguised as legitimate applications, etc. At the same time, sites that rely on the artificial traffic created through browser hijackers are highly likely to be fake search engines. These engines lack the ability to produce results and instead further redirect the user's search query to other sources. Sometimes those are legitimate search engines, but it also is possible for users to be shown low-quality results taken from dubious engines.
There is another important characteristic of most PUPs - these applications may harvest various data from the user's computer. The entire browsing history, search history, clicked URLs, IP address, device type, browser type, OS version, and more could be silently packaged and exfiltrated to a server under the control of the PUP's operators.
URLs
Ursearch.net may call the following URLs:
| ursearch.net |
