mixPhotoz
Posted: July 3, 2017
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: | 8/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 91 |
First Seen: | July 6, 2017 |
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Last Seen: | October 12, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
mixPhotoz is a name used by various Google Chrome extensions, which claim to provide users with access to a brand-new photo search function that should help them find the most relevant image content online. Two of the mixPhotoz extensions are named 'mixPhotoz Start' and 'mixPhotoz Search,' but it is possible that the software's publisher might opt to upload the mixPhotoz extension under another name in the near future. Currently, multiple computer security product vendors categorize mixPhotoz as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP).
Even dough the add-on claims to offer some interesting features, the only notable change it brings is that it modifies the Google Chrome's default new tab page to refer users to a Web page affiliated with the authors of mixPhotoz. The new page appears to be reliable, but using it to do your searches may results in some weird redirects through Searchalgo.com and the Yahoo Search. Although at the end of the day, searches through mixPhotoz bring reliable results, but we advise users against using dubious extensions, and the pages they promote since add-ons like mixPhotoz may have one sole purpose – to boost the traffic a particular page receives artificially.
If you have the mixPhotoz extension installed and you'd like to get rid of it, as well as the new tab page it has set, then you should start by removing mixPhotoz from Google Chrome. One way to take care of this task is to uninstall mixPhotoz from the Chrome's extension manager, or you also can use a credible security scanner to take care of this PUP.
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