MySearchs Search
Posted: October 1, 2014
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.
Ranking: | 8,511 |
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Threat Level: | 5/10 |
Infected PCs: | 4,035 |
First Seen: | October 1, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | October 13, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
MySearchs Search is a generic search engine site and one that has been considered by computer experts to be a browser hijacker. The MySearchs Search website, start.mysearchs.com, is one that may load automatically on some systems set as the default home page. IN such a situation computer users may be annoyed by the MySearchs Search page being loaded each time they open up their web browser. Use of MySearchs Search may end up returning several search results that have advertisements and sponsored links surrounding them. Use of those links or ads may cause other unwanted redirects to questionable sites where unknown items or services may be offered. It is best that the MySearchs Search hijacker and its components or plugins be removed to stop the MySearchs Search home page from loading automatically as a default home page. Removal of MySearchs Search and its related components through an automated process can be done by using an updated antimalware application.
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:%LOCALAPPDATA%\MySearchs\MySearchs\1.3.14.2\mysearchs.exe
File name: mysearchs.exeSize: 532.84 KB (532840 bytes)
MD5: 099883589fcb3f203e01dd2b659a83e3
Detection count: 164
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\MySearchs\MySearchs\1.3.14.2
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: November 3, 2020
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\mysetup.exe
File name: mysetup.exeSize: 409.96 KB (409960 bytes)
MD5: 6b1bec8908852635eca714c4e15b4898
Detection count: 80
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Temp\mysetup.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: November 25, 2022
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Pay-By-Ads\MySearchs\1.3.11.0\mysearchs.exe
File name: mysearchs.exeSize: 588.68 KB (588680 bytes)
MD5: c3d1af5cdaeccc268d0ea60d3b66da2d
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Pay-By-Ads\MySearchs\1.3.11.0
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: October 3, 2014
%LOCALAPPDATA%\MySearchs\MySearchs\1.3.14.2\mysearchs.exe
File name: mysearchs.exeSize: 526.84 KB (526848 bytes)
MD5: 2d8b424a0d99ecac292c1703800739ce
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\MySearchs\MySearchs\1.3.14.2
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: October 3, 2014
Registry Modifications
File name without pathhttp_start.mysearchs.com_0.localstoragehttp_start.mysearchs.com_0.localstorage-journalRegexp file mask%windir%\System32\Tasks\MySearchs%windir%\System32\Tasks\MySearchs UdpaterHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\mysearchs.comSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\start.mysearchs.comSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION\mysearchs.exeSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION\mysetup.exeSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\MySearchsSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\MySearchs UdpaterSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\mysearchsHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}mysearchs
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