Redisearch.com
Posted: October 31, 2017
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: | 10,050 |
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Threat Level: | 5/10 |
Infected PCs: | 11,504 |
First Seen: | October 31, 2017 |
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Last Seen: | October 6, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Redisearch.com is a browser hijacker that usually swaps your search engine with its own and changes your homepage to redisearch.com. Redisearch.com targets all commonly used Web browsers, including Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and the newer Edge browser from Microsoft. Redisearch.com can infect a browser through one of many vectors, including software bundle installers, as well as voluntary installation from the users who do not fully understand what they are allowing on their machines. Once Redisearch.com finds its home in a browser, it may change the homepage to show redisearch.com – a search portal skinned and themed to visually resemble an old Google homepage design from around the year 2011.
One might argue that Redisearch is not that threatening because it simply redirects the users searches through google.com currently, and brings up a new tab or window, containing the original Google search results eventually. However, there’s no way to know where Redisearch.com is storing the information about the user browsing habits and search history and whether this information is forwarded or sold to third parties. The hijacker presents a privacy issue first and foremost, and even though it’s not a threat, it should not be ignored.
The best way to prevent such Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) from getting on your system in the first place, is to use a fully-featured, robust anti-malware suite that can stop similar parasite types in their tracks. Anticipation is always a better strategy than the subsequent cleaning of a system that has already been infected.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
File name without pathredisearch[1].xmlHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\redisearch.com
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