Click System

Posted: December 22, 2011

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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.

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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.

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% 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
Infected PCs:	255

First Seen:	December 22, 2011
Last Seen:	August 1, 2022
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Click System can refer to either a fraudulent search website or a browser hijacker that redirects your online searches to Click System and its affiliate sites. Although Click System may pretend to be a helpful search engine, links from Click System are sorted according to how profitable they are for Click System's web masters without any respect for your computer's safety. Although you may not find Click System by normal web-surfing activities, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers warn that Click System is affiliated with browser hijackers that can redirect your web browser to Click System even if you have no desire to go there. If your web browser loads Click System automatically or you've had any form of contact with Click System, you should scan your PC with anti-malware products that are capable of detecting and deleting Trojans, browser hijackers and other types of high-level PC threats.

Click System – Getting Its Clicks in the Worst Way Possible

Click System, like other types of fraudulent search engines, doesn't put up much of a front of actually being relevant to the queries that are entered in its search bar. Results from Click System should never be interacted with, since Click System may redirect your browser to phishing sites that steal sensitive information or sites that install various types of PC threats. This severely constricts Click System's ability to acquire normal traffic, but Click System simply substitutes browser hijacker-based traffic so that its low quality doesn't impede its ability to garner clicks.

Symptoms of a browser hijacker infection that's affiliated with Click System can include:

Being redirected to Click System when you try to click unrelated links or visit unrelated websites. Popularly used search engines are often targeted by this redirect attack, but redirects to Click System can also strike at other times.
Pop-ups that spontaneously appear and display advertisements, unusual contests or inaccurate infection warnings.
Issues with your web browser's settings. This can include changes to your homepage, reduced security settings, settings that revert to undesired values after you reopen your browser and settings that refuse to be changed at all.

Making Sure That Your Every Click Doesn't Lead to Click System

To protect your PC from Click System and its affiliated browser hijackers, malware analysts suggest, first and foremost, complete avoidance of Click System's site and its partner sites. Websites that have been confirmed to be linked to Click System include rg45clickmaster.com, bestofthebestsearchsystem.com, mediashifting.com, customizeprivacy.com, clicksystemsion.com, clicksystemtoolbar.com, verificationoftheproduct.com, crehtynet.com, dunamicsystem.com, mesearchsystem.com, wtfwtfwtfred.com, efficiency01.com, fgsagagacsa.com, poiskwebdll.com and upgreidclickhosting.com. Contact with any of these sites can result in PC threats (such as browser hijackers) being installed via browser vulnerabilities like drive-by-download scripts.

Removing a browser hijacker and other PC threats that are associated with Click System can be accomplished with a quality anti-malware program. Prior to a scan, you should reboot your PC into Safe Mode or take other steps to make sure that unnecessary processes aren't running – this will prevent Click System's browser hijacker from restoring itself or even preventing its own removal outright.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.

The following files were created in the system:

%WINDOWS%\System32\Drivers\mrxsmb.sys

File name: %WINDOWS%\System32\Drivers\mrxsmb.sys
File type: System file
Mime Type: unknown/sys
Group: Malware file

%WINDOWS%\System32\consrv.dll

File name: %WINDOWS%\System32\consrv.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}SubSystems: Windows = basesrv,1 winsrv:UserServerDllInitialization,3 consrv:ConServerDllInitialization,2 sxssrv,4