Hijacker/Search Hijacker/Clear-Search

Alias: Clear-Search

Description: A software that resets your browser's settings to point to other sites. Hijacks may reroute your info and address requests through an unseen site, capturing that info. In such hijacks, your browser may behave normally, but be slower.

Threat type:

Hijacker - A Hijacker is a software application that takes control of your browser's settings. Usually it changes your home page and redirects it to some unknown site or modifies your search settings. It prevents you from changing back your browser's settings. An infected browser usually operates much slower.

Search Hijacker - A Search Hijacker is a software application that takes control of your browser's default search engine. The search results may not necessarily be the best fit as those usually come from paid advertisements, as issued to you by the Hijacker authors. Search hijackers prevent you from changing your browser's default search engine, and they tend to slow down PC performance.

Advice: Remove This is a very high risk threat and should be removed immediately as to prevent harm to your computer or your privacy.

Detection:
SpyNoMore detects Hijacker/Search Hijacker/Clear-Search: Yes

Threat risk: Medium Risk

Potentially dangerous malware. May collect sensitive user information and broadcast data back to a server with "opt-out" permission. Category includes most adware programs.

Symptoms:

Hijacker/Search Hijacker/Clear-Search changes browser settings.

Hijacker/Search Hijacker/Clear-Search hides from the user and stays resident in background.

Hijacker/Search Hijacker/Clear-Search Signature Details: The following information includes some of the standard signatures associated with this spyware threat. Please do not attempt to manually remove these items from your computer; Removing these items incorrectly or partially can cause your computer to experience critical errors, prevent your computer from restarting or cause loss of Internet connectivity. Should you be infected with Hijacker/Search Hijacker/Clear-Search, you can clean your computer by downloading SpyNoMore now.

Running Process Signatures:
N/A

File Signatures:
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Registered Dll (Dynamic Link Library) Signatures:
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Folder Signatures:
%PROGRAM_FILES%\csbb

Registry Signatures:
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SpyNoMore Collected Residual File Signatures:
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See Also:
Worm/Backdoor/Rbot.gen
Adware/EasySearch
Backdoor/Agobot.gen-1
Adware/Salm
Key Logger/Syshsti
Key Logger/SpyKeylogger
Trojan/Downloader/Troj_Agent.he
Adware/TSUpdate.f
Spyware/WurldMedia.BuyersPort
Dropper/Australian.Demo.3896