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updateyoursystem.com

Posted: February 21, 2008

Updateyoursystem.com is a malicious browser hijacker that is usually downloaded and installed onto your system by a Trojan, exploiting weak browser security spots. Once updateyoursystem.com is executed, it will continuously change your homepage to www.updateyoursystem.com and redirect it to dangerous websites, containing numerous malware applications just waiting to infect your machine. Malicious actions of updateyoursystem.com also include generation of false error messages of imaginary threats at every Windows boot, as well as monitoring your activities, logging them and sending to a remote attacker. Updateyoursystem.com may also drain your system’s processing power severely, and can be very difficult to dispose of.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 updateyoursystem.com
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