Short Name |
SPYWARE:BH:CWSSTARTPAGE-2 |
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Severity |
Medium |
Recommended |
No |
Category |
SPYWARE |
Keywords |
Spyware Browser Hijacker CoolWebSearch StartPage Variant |
Release Date |
2005/10/27 |
Update Number |
1213 |
Supported Platforms |
idp-4.0+, isg-3.0+, j-series-9.5+, mx-9.4+, srx-9.2+, srx-branch-9.4+, vsrx-12.1+ |
This signature detects the runtime behavior of CoolWebSearch.StartPage variant. CoolWebSearch.StartPage is one of the CoolWebSearch browser hijackers. It has many variants. This CoolWebSearch.StartPage variant alters the start page for Internet Explorer, setting it to point to http://balabolka.biz/start.html, which is a meta search engine.
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