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Unusualsearchsystem.com

Posted: October 20, 2011

Unusualsearchsystem.com, although it pretends to be a helpful search engine site, is actually a harmful scam site that uses extremely derivative tactics to turn artificial traffic into cash. Besides being non-functional as a search engine, Unusualsearchsystem.com is also affiliated with various forms of malicious software, including browser-hijackers and ZeroAccess rootkits that redirect your web browser to Unusualsearchsystem.com whenever you try to use another search engine. SpywareRemove.com malware research team notes that the correct way to get rid of an Unusualsearchsystem.com infection is to scan your entire PC with a robust anti-malware program; changing or even deleting your web browser will still leave your computer infected by the Unusualsearchsystem.com Trojan. Until you've done this, try to avoid contact with Unusualsearchsystem.com and its related CC Search sites since they may be sources of browser-based attacks against your computer.

Why the Only Thing That's Unusual About Unusualsearchsystem.com is Its Lack of Features

Unusualsearchsystem.com is the nth addition to the CC Search line of search engine sites, a string of sites that share the same appearance, interface and unpleasant means of attacking any browser that visits them. Browser hijackers that are affiliated with Unusualsearchsystem.com (such as the ZeroAccess rootkit) may redirect you to Unusualsearchsystem.com, to its advertisement-related sites or to identical CC Search sites like strikingsearchsystem.com, marveloussearchsystem.com, wickedsearchsystem.com, raresearchsystem.com, noblesearchsystem.com, Swellsearchsystem.com and neatsearchsystem.com.

Links from Unusualsearchsystem.com supposedly lead towards broad-interest topics like Insurance, Business or Education, but in reality, they'll take you towards websites that garner profit off of advertisements that have nothing to do with your search topic. Due to this general lack of user-friendliness and content value, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers strongly encourage you to walk away from Unusualsearchsystem.com and select a functional search engine.

When Unusualsearchsystem.com Takes the Choice of Search Engines Right Out of Your Hands

Unusualsearchsystem.com and other CC Search websites, besides profiting from fake content, also make use of browser hijackers to inflate their own traffic. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers consider the top symptoms of an Unusualsearchsystem.com-aligned browser hijacker to be:

  • Redirects that take you to Unusualsearchsystem.com or to an Unusualsearchsystem.com-related site when you click on a link in a Google, Bing or Yahoo search result list. These results may take longer to load than usual and will also give you time to observe a brief Unusualsearchsystem.com loading bar in your browser.
  • Homepage or new tab settings that are set to load Unusualsearchsystem.com or another CC Search site. In most cases, although Unusualsearchsystem.com's infection will allow you to change the settings to normal, the change will reverse itself as soon as you reboot your PC.
  • Other unusual system settings and excessive memory usage, typically from the constantly-running ZeroAccess rootkit that's most often the cause of an Unusualsearchsystem.com browser hijack

However, you can get rid of Unusualsearchsystem.com from your searches merely by deleting Unusualsearchsystem.com's browser hijacker, a process that can be accomplished by any reasonably-competent anti-malware application. Since rootkits that are associated with Unusualsearchsystem.com and other CC Search sites are known for advanced concealment techniques, SpywareRemove.com malware experts don't recommend that you try to remove an Unusualsearchsystem.com infection by yourself unless all other options have been tried beforehand.

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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