Rattlingsearchsystem.com

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Although Rattlingsearchsystem.com gives the impression that Rattlingsearchsystem.com is a search engine in the same vein as legitimate websites like Yahoo, Google, or Bing, Rattlingsearchsystem.com is actually a fake. According to ESG malware analysts, Rattlingsearchsystem.com has been associated with a variety of malware infections and rogue websites with unsafe content. Rattlingsearchsystem.com uses browser hijackers to force computer users to return to this fake website repeatedly, thus boosting its traffic and adding impressions artificially. According to ESG PC security researchers, the Rattlingsearchsystem.com fake search engine is closely linked to Google Redirect Virus, and indirectly to the ZeroAccess rootkit. Because of these associations, ESG PC security researchers strongly recommend treating any contact with the Rattlingsearchsystem.com website as a potentially damaging event. The links between Rattlingsearchsystem.com and known malware agents are well known and pose a real danger to your computer system's security.

Rattlingsearchsystem.com and CC Search

Rattlingsearchsystem.com is one of the many versions of CC Search, a malicious search engine that is designed to display fake results from a list of malicious websites that have payed for this service. The kinds of websites associated with CC Search include pornographic websites, online pharmacies, websites promoting online scams, fake surveys and websites selling fake security and system optimization programs. Rattlingsearchsystem.com is a domain name with an extremely large number of lazily-created clones. Criminals simply take the 'searchsystem' string and add a usually nonsensical adjective as a prefix. In the case of Rattlingsearchsystem.com, the adjective is 'rattling' which does is very confusing when used in the context of a search engine. Some examples of adjectives used in the creation of clones of Rattlingsearchsystem.com include jolly, unusual, signal, colossal, marvelous, remarkable and same. These domain names are almost certainly generated automatically, with the help of a digital thesaurus and a simple script. Why go to the length of creating clones for a malicious website? The answer is simple: to make the work of PC security researchers much more difficult. The work involved in making clones of fake search engines such as Rattlingsearchsystem.com is much less than the work involved in identifying each one of the many copies of this bogus search engine. By using a large number of clones, criminals can increase their coverage and potential victims while, at the same time, making it difficult for PC security researchers to identify and provide protection from every single clone.