Threat Database Browser Hijackers Gooooodsearchsystem.com

Gooooodsearchsystem.com

By LoneStar in Browser Hijackers

The website Gooooodsearchsystem.com contains a fake search engine. Malware analysts may recognize Gooooodsearchsystem.com's URL, as Gooooodsearchsystem.com is extremely similar to dozens of other websites identical to Gooooodsearchsystem.com. This is because Gooooodsearchsystem.com belongs to a group of malicious search engines with extremely similar domain names. These names are thought to be generated automatically with a simple script, due to their similarity. Clones of Gooooodsearchsystem.com will typically use the words 'search system' with an added adjective preceding them and a .com address. Typically, these fake search engines will use names that utilize a positive adjective, although there are plenty of clones of Gooooodsearchsystem.com that use random or nonsensical words. Examples of clones of Gooooodsearchsystem.com include marveloussearchsystem.com and reliablesearchsystem.com. Do not be fooled by this website's name; there is absolutely nothing good about Gooooodsearchsystem.com. Websites like Gooooodsearchsystem.com are designed to act as intermediaries between a computer system infected with dangerous malware and a host of websites containing dangerous or unsafe content. According to ESG security researchers, any contact with the Gooooodsearchsystem.com website is a risk for a potential malware infection. In fact, visitors to the Gooooodsearchsystem.com website will usually be already infected with malware, since the criminals behind this fake search engine use browser hijackers in order to force computer users to visit Gooooodsearchsystem.com.

Gooooodsearchsystem.com's Nasty Associations

While Gooooodsearchsystem.com in itself does not have the capacity to infect a computer system directly, ESG security researchers consider Gooooodsearchsystem.com a severe security threat. This is because Gooooodsearchsystem.com is closely associated with a variety of very nasty malware, the ZeroAccess rootkit. This rootkit, with the capacity to infect a computer system at its deepest level, will use a Trojan known as the Google Redirect Virus in order to force the victim's Internet browser to visit websites like Gooooodsearchsystem.com. Once on the malicious website, clicking on any of the links displayed on it or executing a search on this bogus search engine will lead the computer user to a variety of malicious websites known to contain malware or to be associated with illegal activities and online scams. Through the Gooooodsearchsystem.com fake search engine, a computer user may reach websites containing dangerous Trojans designed to grant full access to the victim's computer to a hacker. Using these kinds of Trojans, hackers can use infected computers to perform illegal actions or simply steal all of the victim's data.

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