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Accurately-locate.com seems to be a search engine with a black and white color scheme and minimalist design. However, Accurately-locate.com's search results are often irrelevant or unsafe. Many of these search results have been observed to lead to websites containing phishing scams or promoting malware. Although Accurately-locate.com has a dismal success rate as a search engine, Accurately-locate.com still receives a steady rate of web traffic. However, this is not related to Accurately-locate.com's quality but to the fact that criminals use a browser hijacker (a kind of malware infection that can take over the victim's web browser) in order to push PC users to visit Accurately-locate.com repeatedly. These redirects to Accurately-locate.com will often occur after doing an online search on a real search engine. If you find your web browser directing you to Accurately-locate.com against your will, this is a sure sign that your PC has become a victim of a browser hijacker Trojan or rootkit infection.
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Accurately-locate.com is Part of a Well-known Online Scam
Fake or severely limited search engines promoted with browser hijacker are a common online scam. Some examples of these kinds of websites that are associated with Accurately-locate.com include Localfindinfo.com and Discover-facts.com. The main danger associated with Accurately-locate.com is the browser hijacker that criminals use to direct computer users to this search engine against their will. These browser hijackers will often contain a rootkit component that creates a hidden file system on the infected hard drive, corrupts essential Windows system files, and disables known security software. Because of this, ESG malware researchers strongly advise using an anti-rootkit tool, or anti-malware software with anti-rootkit technology if you are experiencing Accurately-locate.com redirects. These redirects can occur in various ways, such as changes to the infected web browser's homepage, direct redirects to Accurately-locate.com, or the appearance of links to Accurately-locate.com in what otherwise would be plain text content.
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Detections: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on
infected computers as reported by SpyHunter.
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| 1. | %AppData%[trojan name]toolbarcouponsmerchants2.xml | |
| 2. | %AppData%[trojan name]toolbarlog.txt | |
| 3. | %AppData%[trojan name]toolbarstats.dat | |
| 4. | %AppData%[trojan name]toolbarversion.xml | |
| 5. | %AppData%[trojan name]toolbarcouponsmerchants.xml | |
| 6. | %AppData%[trojan name]toolbarguid.dat | |
| 7. | %AppData%[trojan name]toolbarstat.log | |
| 8. | %AppData%[trojan name]toolbaruninstallStatIE.dat | |
| 9. | %AppData%[trojan name]toolbarcouponscategories.xml | |
| 10. | %AppData%[trojan name]toolbardtx.ini | |
| 11. | %AppData%[trojan name]toolbarpreferences.dat | |
| 12. | %AppData%[trojan name]toolbaruninstallIE.dat | |
| 13. | %Temp%[trojan name]toolbar-manifest.xml |
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