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Flyingincognitosleep.com

Posted: April 5, 2011

Flyingincognitosleep.com is a malicious website affiliated with rogue security applications like Security Shield as well as being a browser hijacker. While infected by Flyingincognitosleep.com, your web browser may have its homepage altered, redirect itself to dangerous websites or display advertisements or fake unsafe website alerts that block access to safe websites. Fully deleting Flyingincognitosleep.com typically requires high-quality anti-malware software armed with the most recent database updates, since Flyingincognitosleep.com is a newer threat that has been confirmed to avoid removal even by some popular scanner products.

Bundling with a Fake Shield and Other Treacherous Infection Tactics

An infection by Flyingincognitosleep.com is most often acquired by getting the rogue security program Security Shield which also distributes the Flyingincognitosleep.com hijacker in some versions. Security Shield and similar rogue security programs imitate the look of a system diagnostic or anti-virus tool but actually attack your security and have no benefits. You may also get infected by visiting a malicious website that uses browser exploits to force a download of Flyingincognitosleep.com onto your PC without your consent.

Flyingincognitosleep.com and related infections have been reported to cause heavy system slowdown, as well as slow browser response time. If your browser has the Flyingincognitosleep.com infection, you will immediately notice your homepage being altered to 'flyingincognitosleep.com/cgi-bin/h.pl' or a similar subdomain of the malicious Flyingincognitosleep.com website.

Trying to alter your settings back to the original values will fail as long as Flyingincognitosleep.com is still on your PC, and allowing Flyingincognitosleep.com to control your web browser is likely to result in other websites being blocked.

Flyingincognitosleep.com has been known to attack Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers but may also be able to infect other popular web browser applications.

Expunging Flyingincognitosleep.com from Your Browser

If you lack recently updated and high-quality anti-malware scanners, you may find Flyingincognitosleep.com difficult to remove. The Flyingincognitosleep.com infection has been noted to avoid detection and deletion by multiple types of popular scanners. You can minimize the risk of this by keeping your scanners updated on a daily basis and running them regularly to catch new infections.

Most cases of infection by Flyingincognitosleep.com have been reported to be solved by rebooting into Safe Mode several times and running system scans with appropriate anti-malware software each time. However, if left untended to, Flyingincognitosleep.com and Flyingincognitosleep.com's related infections may even be able to crash Safe Mode.

If Flyingincognitosleep.com renders Safe Mode inaccessible, you may have no other options other than performing a System Restore or otherwise wiping the system entirely to delete Flyingincognitosleep.com. This high-level threat makes removing Flyingincognitosleep.com rapidly an urgent priority for any computer user.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 %PROGRAM_FILES%\Flyingincognitosleep.com
    2 c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Flyingincognitosleep.com\
    3 c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Flyingincognitosleep.com\

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Flyingincognitosleep.com
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