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Since the inception of our company with humor websites www.ajokeaday.com and its Spanish counterpart www.chistes.com, we have accumulated valuable experience that enabled us to expand into other areas of services. The circulation of our humor sites now reaches over three million readers monthly.
Our collection of Internet services is led by 7Search.com, one of the first Pay-Per-Ranking search engines on the Internet and currently the second most trafficked bid for placement search engine on the Web. Innovative affiliate concepts such as Pay-Per-Text and Pay-Per-Search, and 7FaSSt Search make 7Search a leader in helping webmasters generate revenue from their websites.
Our network of services include: http://www.BannersXChange.com/, a site which guarantees the highest click-thru rate; http://www.LinksToYou.com/, a program to boost site popularity and search engine rankings; and http://www.TrafficRanking.com, a site which provides free web statistics and market research.'
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Toolbar: A group of buttons which perform common tasks. A toolbar for Internet Explorer is nomally located below the menu bar at the top of the form. Toolbars may be created by Browser Helper Objects.
Browser Helper Object: (BHO). A component that Internet Explorer will load whenever it starts, shares IE's memory context, can perform any action on the available windows and modules. A BHO can detect events, create windows to display additional information on a viewed page, monitor messages and actions. Microsoft calls it "a spy we send to infiltrate the browser's land." BHOs are not stopped by personal firewalls, because they are seen by the firewall as your browser itself. Some exploits of this technology search all pages you view in IE and replace banner advertisements with other ads. Some monitor and report on your actions. Some change your home page.
Search Hijacker: Any software that resets your browser's settings to point to other sites when you perform a search. Hijacks may reroute your info and address requests through an unseen site, capturing that info. In such hijacks, your browser may behave normally, but be slower. Search results when such a hijacker is running will sometimes differ from non-hijacked results.
Spyware: Any product that employs a user's Internet connection in the background without their knowledge, and gathers/transmits info on the user or their behavior. Many spyware products will collect referrer info (information from your web browser which reveals what URL you linked from), your IP address (a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer), system information (such as time of visit, type of browser used, the operating system and platform, and CPU speed.) Spyware products sometimes wrap other commercial products, and are introduced to machines when those commercial products are installed. See also Adware.
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The "Clot Factor" is a measure of how much a pest "gums up" a machine by adding registry entries, files, and directories. As more objects are placed in a machine, manual removal becomes more difficult and more error-prone.
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PestPatrol detects this.
PestPatrol removes this.
Manual Removal:
There is an entry for 7FaSSt Search in Add/Remove Programs, which removes the main part of the software. To clean up, go to 'Downloaded Program Files' in the Windows folder and remove the entries for '{669695BC-A811-4A9D-8CDF-BA8C795F261E}' and 'FSInstall_1 Control'. (The latter is not actually an installer; it's just used by the installing web page to set an affiliate and unique user number before installing the software.)
You can also run 'regedit' and remove the key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\7Search' from the registry if you like.
Kill these running processes with Task Manager:
Unregister these DLLs with Regsvr32, then reboot:
Remove these registry items (if present) with RegEdit:
Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:
Remove these directories (if present) with Windows Explorer:
After following the instructions above, you will still need to restore your original settings and prevent this from happening again.
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- 7FaSSt: 7fasstsearch.log · 7search.dll · fsgetuserid.exe · fsregister3.exe