Colossalsearchsystem.com

Colossalsearchsystem.com is a fraudulent search engine website that spreads ZeroAccess rootkits and uses these rootkits to inflate its affiliate traffic. Since Colossalsearchsystem.com is a copy of other websites that use a similar scam under the CC Search name, you should consider any other -searchsystem.com website to be just as hostile as Colossalsearchsystem.com and strive to avoid contact with them. Even setting the danger of infection via browser vulnerabilities aside, SpywareRemove.com malware research team has found that Colossalsearchsystem.com lacks any good reason to visit Colossalsearchsystem.com and is incapable of providing legitimate search results. If your browser redirects itself to Colossalsearchsystem.com or you experience unusual error messages that block security programs, your PC has a strong chance of being infected with a Colossalsearchsystem.com rootkit. To delete ZeroAccess rootkits and other Colossalsearchsystem.com infections, SpywareRemove.com malware experts advise that you use the best anti-malware program that's available and avoid manual removal techniques if at all possible.

Colossalsearchsystem.com: a Colossal Waste of Time for Online Searches

Colossalsearchsystem.com is a clone of other CC Search sites that share its appearance, fake search engine functionality and preference for browser hijackers. Although you can recognize all CC Search websites that SpywareRemove.com malware experts have identified so far by noting the white CC Search emblem, you should also be wary of websites with an URL that matches the CC Search pattern: [adjective]searchsystem.com. Colossalsearchsystem.com's currently-known clones include corkingsearchsystem.com, coolsearchsystem.com, marveloussearchsystem.com, raresearchsystem.com, swellsearchsystem.com, uncommonsearchsystem.com, unusualsearchsystem.com, wickedsearchsystem.com, noblesearchsystem.com, neatsearchsystem.com and strikingsearchsystem.com.

Like its kin, Colossalsearchsystem.com tries hard to look like a real search engine site, but its results are designed to list sites that pay affiliate traffic revenue back to Colossalsearchsystem.com, rather than being sites that are related to your search queries. Advertisement and online commerce websites, phishing sites, scamware sites and sites that attack your browser with drive-by-download infections are all among the possibilities in a Colossalsearchsystem.com search.

The Invisible Software That Colossalsearchsystem.com Wants to Keep Under Your Radar

SpywareRemove.com malware experts have also noted that Colossalsearchsystem.com shares another kind of significant trait with other CC search sites – a tendency to use browser redirect attacks to force you to use its fake search services. Since Colossalsearchsystem.com and affiliated sites may install malicious software, such as ZeroAccess rootkits, via drive-by-download scripts that don't require your consent, any visit to Colossalsearchsystem.com is enough to leave your PC infected. Symptoms of infection by a Colossalsearchsystem.com or other CC search browser hijacker can include:

• Google Redirect Virus style attacks that redirect you to Colossalsearchsystem.com, when you try to use another search engine. Variants of this attack can cycle through different CC Search sites or load Colossalsearchsystem.com when you open a new browser window.
• Blocked security software, especially anti-malware tools that could remove a Colossalsearchsystem.com infection. You may also see fake error messages, such as:

  "Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item."

• The presence of unusual system processes in Task Manager or system processes that use more memory than they normally use. In particular, ZeroAccess rootkits that are affiliated with Colossalsearchsystem.com have been known to use a process-naming pattern of '[10 random numbers]:[10 random numbers].exe.'

To delete a Colossalsearchsystem.com browser hijacker, rootkit or other CC Search infection, SpywareRemove.com malware experts recommend that you reboot into 'Safe Mode with Networking.' This will stop most forms of infected processes from launching and will allow you to install updates for your anti-malware programs. Afterwards, there isn't anything that Colossalsearchsystem.com infections can do to your PC that a simple scan with a good anti-malware application can't fix.