Threat Database Browser Hijackers Wonderfulsearchsystem.com

Wonderfulsearchsystem.com

By ESGI Advisor in Browser Hijackers

Wonderfulsearchsystem.com is a website that contains a fake search engine. The domain name Wonderfulsearchsystem.com may be familiar to many malware analysts, since Wonderfulsearchsystem.com is a domain name that is recycled to create clones of this fake search engine. Wonderfulsearchsystem.com belongs to a large network of similar websites which host the same basic malicious search engine. To increase this fake search engine's online presence, the criminals behind Wonderfulsearchsystem.com have created a large number of domains that only differ slightly. There is a pattern to the naming of clones of Wonderfulsearchsystem.com. Typically, the hackers behind Wonderfulsearchsystem.com will take the term 'searchsystem' and add a randomly chosen word. At first these words were positive adjectives (such as 'wonderful' in Wonderfulsearchsystem.com or 'neat' in neatsearchsystem.com), however, as their options run out, criminals have started to turn to more nonsensical domain names, or to rather obscure positive adjectives such as 'eximious'. The main goal of fake search engines like Wonderfulsearchsystem.com is to use a browser hijacker to drive victims to the Wonderfulsearchsystem.com domain and a network of websites associated with this malicious search engine. These websites tend to be dangerous because of a malware presence or because of online scams and fraudulent activities. This is why ESG PC security analysts strongly recommend avoiding Wonderfulsearchsystem.com and scanning your system for malware in the event of having visited Wonderfulsearchsystem.com.

Wonderfulsearchsystem.com is Associated With Numerous Malware Infections

The main danger in the Wonderfulsearchsystem.com website and search engine is its relationship with malware of all kinds. While the actual search engine is not harmful in itself, the vast majority of people visiting Wonderfulsearchsystem.com do so because of a severe Trojan infection that causes browser redirects. In fact, Wonderfulsearchsystem.com and its clones have been closely linked with the ZeroAccess rootkit, a severe rootkit infection that is quite difficult to remove. The association between the two is so strong that the presence of a Wonderfulsearchsystem.com browser hijacker on a computer system is almost a guarantee of the presence of the ZeroAccess rootkit. Any search results displayed by the search engine at Wonderfulsearchsystem.com are not related to the actual searches performed by its visitors. Search results on Wonderfulsearchsystem.com are simply a list of malicious websites associated in some way with the criminals behind Wonderfulsearchsystem.com. A Wonderfulsearchsystem.com-related browser hijacker is a severe problem that should be fixed with a legitimate, up-to-date, anti-malware application immediately. Failure to do so can lead to a host of severe problems down the line.

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