Search Enhancer

Search Enhancer is an adware that uses aggressive, deceptive advertising. It may be installed without adequate notice and consent, often though exploits. Search Enhancer is an adware that uses aggressive, deceptive advertising. It may be installed without adequate notice and consent, often though exploits.0

General information:

Malware Name: Search Enhancer
Malware Type: Adware
Company Name: searchenhancer.com
Company URL: http://www.searchenhancer.com/
Threat Level: Low Risk
Operating System: WIN XP
Installation Type: Installed through EXE
Operation: Time of After Installation

Company Description:

searchenhancer.com provides you the Search Enhancer that is a powerful software tool that improves the recall and precision of information retrieval systems. The technology has been deployed by leading knowledge management companies for index preprocessing, search preprocessing, and search expansion. Search Enhancer performs sophisticated linguistic processing including tokenization, morphological analysis, part of speech tagging, and noun phrase parsing. Search Enhancer supports twelve languages and is available for multiple platforms.

Spyware Description:

Search Enhancer is an adware that uses aggressive, deceptive advertising. It may be installed without adequate notice and consent, often though exploits. Search Enhancer is an adware that uses aggressive, deceptive advertising. It may be installed without adequate notice and consent, often though exploits.0

Characteristics/Symptoms:

    -> It uses aggressive, deceptive advertising. -> It uses malicious software to advertise or install itself.

Additional information might be found here:

google Search at Google for Search Enhancer
bing Search at Bing for Search Enhancer
yahoo Search at Yahoo for Search Enhancer

Processes Running:

File information Created after Installation:

File Location Size (Bytes) Type
C:\WINDOWS\system32\SearchTool\uninstallSE.exe 46903 Application

Folder information Created after Installation:

Folder Location

Registry information Created after Installation:

Main Registry Key Sub Registry Key Key Value Name
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \\CLSID\{5ED7D3DE-6DBE-4516-8712-01B1B64B7057} [NULL]0
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \\CLSID\{5ED7D3DE-6DBE-4516-8712-01B1B64B7057}\InprocServer32 ThreadingModel0
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \\CLSID\{5ED7D3DE-6DBE-4516-8712-01B1B64B7057}\InprocServer32 [NULL]0