Search.popclick.net

Search.popclick.net is an active distributor of malicious software and has been linked to rootkits that are capable of multiple types of attacks against your PC, including redirecting your browser to Search.popclick.net, installing other types of PC threats and allowing criminals to control your computer via backdoor security holes. Some major symptoms that have been linked to Search.popclick.net-promoting browser hijackers include disabled security programs and system analysis programs freezing during the creation of log files. Rootkits that are associated with Search.popclick.net or its base domain (popclick.net) should be considered to be high-level threats to your computer's safety, and SpywareRemove.com malware research team recommends that you use the best quality anti-malware programs to remove them from your PC when they're recognized.

Search.popclick.net, a Friend to Rootkits

Search.popclick.net, although Search.popclick.net looks like a search engine, has been confirmed by malware researchers to be a thriving disease vector that propagates rootkits and other forms of malicious software. Many victims of contact with Search.popclick.net have reported that they first encountered Search.popclick.net after being infected by a fake Internet Explorer update that was distributed by Facebook pop-ups. Once this rootkit has infected your PC, your homepage will be set to Search.popclick.net and no amount of tweaking your browser's settings will allow you to undo this change.

Visits to Search.popclick.net may also be a source of drive-by-downloads or other forms of contact with PC threats; as such, SpywareRemove.com malware experts discourage any efforts to use Search.popclick.net as the search engine that Search.popclick.net portrays itself to be. Although rootkits that redirect your browser to Search.popclick.net will attempt to conceal themselves by infecting your master boot record, you may be able to notice them by watching out for signs such as these:

• Disabled Windows tools such as the Task Manager.
• Disabled anti-malware and anti-virus scanners.
• System analysis utilities, particularly those that are designed to detect unauthorized types of system changes, that freeze when they attempt to create log files of their analyses.

If left alone on your PC, Search.popclick.net-affiliated rootkits may also steal personal information, be used to access your computer for criminal purposes or be a source of additional PC threats. Therefore, SpywareRemove.com malware analysts discourage anything other than deleting Search.popclick.net's rootkits as soon as you can do so by using trustworthy anti-malware products to scan your entire computer.

Searching Through the Consequences of a Search.popclick.net Redirect Infection

Rootkits that are capable of Search.popclick.net redirects may also be reconfigured by instructions from remote servers, download and install other PC threats or even be updated automatically to avoid detection from anti-malware products. Since rootkits like Search.popclick.net-affiliated ones will launch themselves automatically and conceal their processes to avoid detection from casual observation, you should be prepared to use the most stringent types of malware detection methods and software to find and remove all components of a Search.popclick.net-related PC threat.

Malware experts also warn against contact with popclick.net, which, as the base domain for the search.popclick.net sub-domain, can be considered to be just as damaging as Search.popclick.net, regardless of whether you navigated to Search.popclick.net by accident or were forced to load Search.popclick.net by a browser hijacker.