Searchzillions
Posted: June 22, 2015
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: | 5/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 178 |
First Seen: | June 11, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | May 2, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Searchzillions is a browser hijacker, which promotes searchzillions.com. Although it greatly resembles the legitimate search platforms, this search engine should not be trusted. The browser hijacker comes in the form of extension or add-on and takes control of your Internet clients – including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It may get access to your system bundled with another cost-free application. You can easily prevent the installation of such suspicious tools if you perform the process through the "Custom" option. If you fail to uncheck it manually, you will notice the symptoms of Searchzillions immediately. The hijacker sets searchzillions.com as your homepage and encourages you to use it for your searches. However, there is no benefit for you in doing so, as the platform offers nothing more than Google or Bing. Actually, the majority of results are copied from there. The first few results, however, are sponsored links towards partner sites. They may at best be inaccurate, but may also represent a threat to your system. You may also experience other problems, related to the questionable add-on. In order to resolve them, you should scan your system with an anti-malware tool as soon as possible.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Classes\.shtml\OpenWithProgids\SearchzillionsHTML.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQSOFTWARE\Classes\.webp\OpenWithProgids\SearchzillionsHTML.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQSOFTWARE\Classes\.xht\OpenWithProgIds\SearchzillionsHTML.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQSOFTWARE\Classes\.xhtml\OpenWithProgIds\SearchzillionsHTML.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\CompatibilityAdapter\Signatures\WSE_Searchzillions.jobSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\CompatibilityAdapter\Signatures\WSE_Searchzillions.job.fpSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\WSE_SearchzillionsSOFTWARE\RegisteredApplications\Searchzillions.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\Wse_SearchzillionsSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\RegisteredApplications\Searchzillions.NSJA6BHDA3NCFCFMXW3QSCUYUQ
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