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Strikingsearchsystem.com

Posted: October 17, 2011

Strikingsearchsystem.com Screenshot 1Strikingsearchsystem.com uses a toxic cocktail of browser hijackers, a 'friendly' search engine interface and irrelevant website links to force you towards advertisement-based websites that serve no purpose except to throw money at Strikingsearchsystem.com's web masters. Most Strikingsearchsystem.com browser hijacker infections occur after being accidentally exposed to Strikingsearchsystem.com or another search engine site that installs their browser hijacker without permission via drive-by-download attacks. Afterwards, Strikingsearchsystem.com may appear whenever you try to use another search engine site, even if you switch browsers or use strong browser security settings. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers suggest that you stay well away from Strikingsearchsystem.com and affiliated websites to prevent any possible harm from coming to your PC, and recommend deleting Strikingsearchsystem.com browser hijackers with any adequately-powerful anti-malware program that's at your disposal.

Strikingsearchsystem.com: a Striking Source of... Irrelevant Websites

Strikingsearchsystem.com is a website that uses the same scamming techniques and interface as other CC Search sites, hoping to avoid notice by changing Strikingsearchsystem.com's name from those of Strikingsearchsystem.com's predecessors. However, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers haven't seen any sign that Strikingsearchsystem.com is less hostile than other CC Search sites, such as neatsearchsystem.com, noblesearchsystem.com, marveloussearchsystem.com, wickedsearchsystem.com or raresearchsystem.com. Like all of the above sites, Strikingsearchsystem.com pretends to give you helpful links for general-interest topics like 'Insurance,' 'Business' and 'Homes,' and even appears to have search-related features, but all of these functions are fake.

Links from Strikingsearchsystem.com will redirect you to websites that deliver money to Strikingsearchsystem.com's maintainers, in return for the much-craved traffic. As a result, Strikingsearchsystem.com is less interested in providing you with useful links than Strikingsearchsystem.com is in forcing you to visit advertisement sites and online commerce websites. Contact with Strikingsearchsystem.com, Strikingsearchsystem.com's affiliated sites or any other CC Search site can also be a source of infection by Strikingsearchsystem.com browser hijackers and other PC threats, and you should strive to keep your browser as far away from them as possible.

Striking Fear into the Heart of Strikingsearchsystem.com

If you suspect that PC has already been infected by a CC Search or Strikingsearchsystem.com browser hijacker, you can watch for the following symptoms:

  • Changed browser settings or settings that are inaccessible for inexplicable reasons. Changes to the startup page and homepage are especially common for Strikingsearchsystem.com infections and other forms of browser hijackers.
  • Being redirected to Strikingsearchsystem.com or other CC Search sites, sometimes at random, but most often, when you try to use Google or other search engines.
  • The presence of unusual memory processes that use excessive system resources, or normal processes (such as iexplore.exe) that use more memory than they should use.

Because Strikingsearchsystem.com browser hijacks are sometimes a sign of infection by Trojans or rootkits (such as TDSS Rootkits, TDL3 Rootkits or ZeroAccess rootkits), you shouldn't try to remove Strikingsearchsystem.com infections by removing your web browser. Instead, SpywareRemove.com malware experts recommend that you get to the source of the problem with a good anti-malware application that can remove Strikingsearchsystem.com browser hijackers and other components of a CC Search-related 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:



%Windows%\system32\consrv.dll File name: %Windows%\system32\consrv.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
%Windows%\system32\DRIVERS\mrxsmb.sys File name: %Windows%\system32\DRIVERS\mrxsmb.sys
File type: System file
Mime Type: unknown/sys

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}SubSystems: Windows = basesrv,1 winsrv:UserServerDllInitialization,3 consrv:ConServerDllInitialization,2 sxssrv,4
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