Secure-surf.com
Posted: August 4, 2015
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: | 14,896 |
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Threat Level: | 5/10 |
Infected PCs: | 1,152 |
First Seen: | August 4, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | August 15, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Secure-surf.com is a suspicious search engine that may provide its users with unreliable, sponsored or manipulated search results. Naturally, few people would use secure-surf.com on purpose when they can take advantage of the features offered by legitimate search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. Unfortunately, Secure-surf.com's authors may use shady tricks whose purpose is to get users to visit Secure-surf.com against their will. One of the methods that may be used to generate traffic for low-quality websites like Secure-surf.com involves the use of a browser hijacker. The Secure-surf.com browser hijacker is a small program that can attach itself to popular Web browsers and manipulate their settings so that they redirect users to Secure-surf.com. The browser hijacker associated with this search engine may use deceptive marketing tricks to get to the user's computer, and many people may not even realize that a low-level cyber threat is the reason why their Web browser keeps redirecting them to Secure-surf.com. If your Web browser is behaving suspiciously, and its homepage or new tab page take you to Secure-surf.com, then it is very likely that the cause for this is the browser hijacker in question. You should not tolerate this behavior and take the necessary measures to eliminate the Secure-surf.com browser hijacker, restore your Web browser's normal settings and behavior. Anti-malware scanners are a great tool to combat browser hijackers because they can locate and delete all of the hijacker's components swiftly, therefore preventing it from manipulating the Web browser's configuration.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
CLSID{9EDFF826-787E-422A-BB78-A0D654F030D0}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Classes\SecureSurfToolbar.IEHookSOFTWARE\Classes\SecureSurfToolbar.IEHook.1Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\secure-surf.comSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\www.secure-surf.comSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchScopes\{EC644A48-026D-4780-84C3-83229A26FA0F}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\{9EDFF826-787E-422A-BB78-A0D654F030D0}Software\SecureSurfSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\{9EDFF826-787E-422A-BB78-A0D654F030D0}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\SecureSurfHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}SecureSurfToolbar
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