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Coolsearchsystem.com

Posted: October 21, 2011

Coolsearchsystem.com Screenshot 1Coolsearchsystem.com is a not-particularly-cool fake search engine site that displays online commerce links and advertisements to drive money to its creators, while falsely-advertising itself as a legitimate search engine. Because this behavior doesn't attract many natural visitors, Coolsearchsystem.com has also resorted to using browser-hijacking Trojans to force a variant of Google Redirect Virus attacks on infected computers. SpywareRemove.com malware experts encourage you to minimize any contact with Coolsearchsystem.com or related websites (including Coolsearchsystem.com's many CC Search clone sites) to insure the safety of your PC. If you've visited Coolsearchsystem.com or experienced signs of a possible Coolsearchsystem.com browser redirect attack, you should consider using an anti-malware program to scan your PC, so that it can detect and delete any Coolsearchsystem.com infection that may be hiding in your computer.

A Whiff of Coolsearchsystem.com's Chilling Idea of Search Engine Features

Coolsearchsystem.com pretends to be a unique and useful search engine site, but as far as features and appearances go, Coolsearchsystem.com is incredibly derivative of other forms of malicious websites. As just another recruit in the multi-pronged CC Search scam, Coolsearchsystem.com shares browser-hijacking tendencies and general uselessness with such sites of infamy as raresearchsystem.com, Unusualsearchsystem.com, strikingsearchsystem.com, wickedsearchsystem.com, neatsearchsystem.com, noblesearchsystem.com, Swellsearchsystem.com and marveloussearchsystem.com. All of the above sites should be considered identical in hostility, and SpywareRemove.com malware researchers encourage you to avoid contact with any of them, including, of course, Coolsearchsystem.com.

If you do try to use Coolsearchsystem.com's search engine, your browser will be redirected to links for online commerce, commercials and other types of useless fluff that don't provide content that's relevant to your search query. At best, Coolsearchsystem.com may steal search results from other search engines, but this is still less efficient than using a reputable search engine.

Sadly, Coolsearchsystem.com's criminal web masters are very aware of this, and use browser-hijacking Trojans to make up for it. The most common sign of infection by Coolsearchsystem.com browser hijackers is being redirected from a normal search engine, such as Google, to Coolsearchsystem.com or another CC Search site. However, other side effects that can harm your PC (such as having your web browser settings locked) may also occur.

Putting the Chill on Coolsearchsystem.com

Because Coolsearchsystem.com Trojans may launch themselves without your permission even before you've opened your web browser, you should consider rebooting into Safe Mode, before you attempt to remove a Coolsearchsystem.com infection. Reinstalling your web browser is discouraged, since SpywareRemove.com malware experts have determined that Coolsearchsystem.com browser hijackers are capable of attacking all forms of popular web browsers and don't store their components in browser-specific locations.

Any sufficiently-advanced anti-malware program should be able to remove a Coolsearchsystem.com browser hijacker during a system scan, as long as your anti-malware software of choice has had all threat definition updates installed so that it can fully-identify a Coolsearchsystem.com infection.

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:



C:Windowssystem32DRIVERSmrxsmb.sys File name: C:Windowssystem32DRIVERSmrxsmb.sys
File type: System file
Mime Type: unknown/sys
C:Windowssystem32consrv.dll File name: C:Windowssystem32consrv.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
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