What would you call something that looks exactly like a progress bar (ie: When you are installing a program) but that isn't used to measure the progress of a task.
In this case it's used to display the "threat level" of a suspected software, in an anti-virus. But I'm looking for a more general word than "threat bar".
I've always called it a status bar.
noun
Computing:
A horizontal bar, usually at the bottom of the screen or window, showing information about a document being edited or a program running.
While the status bar is often used to describe the bar at the bottom of whatever software you are creating, it doesn't always have to mean that. In your specific case I think a threat status bar would be appropriate.
Since in both cases, what the bar is really doing is indicating or displaying the results of some kind of measurement, I would probably call it either a measuring bar or an indicator/display bar as a generic hypernym for any such type of bar.
