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SearchAndDestroy

Posted: March 5, 2008

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 10/10
Infected PCs: 148
First Seen: July 24, 2009
Last Seen: May 24, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

ScreenshotSearchAndDestroy is a rogue anti-spyware application that reports exaggerated spyware results. Once installed, SearchAndDestroy will automatically load and scan your system only to display false positives in hopes of tricking you into buying the full version of the program. SearchAndDestroy has no affiliation to Spybot Search & Destroy. SearchAndDestroy program may be difficult to remove manually, and will continue to try to recreate itself.

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:



Search And Destroy.exe File name: Search And Destroy.exe
Size: 12.54 MB (12546155 bytes)
MD5: c57e7668b35a06d2ae29bc6ce4e909e5
Detection count: 40
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 11, 2009

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathSearch And Destroy.lnk
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