Azseach is a browser hijacker that changes your homepage and filters your searches on the most known web search engines to provide corrupted results. It installs a toolbar (Azesearch) in Internet Explorer and adds several links to Favorites.
The CLSIDs used by the toolbar are {a19ef336-01d4-48e6-926a-fe7e1c747aed}, {ba048011-957f-4ba0-a804-62c28d96f878}, {da7ff3f8-08be-4cac-bc00-94d91c6ae7f4}.
Registration as a BHO is under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{da7ff3f8-08be-4cac-bc00-94d91c6ae7f4}.
On install, its files are copied to the %SYSTEM% folder, and an executable is added to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. File names vary, depending on the version being installed, but most start with AZE. One exception is iasada.dll, which is also a BHO that monitors your Internet Explorer. Its CLSID is {f65b197f-8260-4d52-909a-f70118e646eb}.
Virus Information
Prevalence:
Medium
Name: Adware.Azsearch
Type:
How it spreads: Azseach is a browser hijacker that changes your homepage and filters your searches on the most known web search engines to provide corrupted results. It installs a toolbar (Azesearch) in Internet Expl
Affected operating:
Aliases: AZESearch
Date of surface: Aug 29 2005 12:00AM
MediumName: Adware.Azsearch
Type:
How it spreads: Azseach is a browser hijacker that changes your homepage and filters your searches on the most known web search engines to provide corrupted results. It installs a toolbar (Azesearch) in Internet Expl
Affected operating:
Aliases: AZESearch
Date of surface: Aug 29 2005 12:00AM
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You can download the eScan Anti-Virus Toolkit utility from the MicroWorld Web site.
Alternatively, you can install MicroWorld’s Internet Security Suite which has real time detection capabilities.
You can download and install the product from our eScan download page.
