Title: CrackedEarth

Type: Browser Hijackers

Remove CrackedEarth. Removal instructions

Severity scale:

(38 / 100)

CrackedEarth is a browser hijacker that changes Internet Explorer default home and search pages. The threat may also install an additional toolbar and add numerous bookmarks to the web browser's Favorites list. CrackedEarth is distributed using ActiveX drive-by downloads and therefore can get into the system while visiting some unsafe web sites. The parasite runs every time the user launches Internet Explorer.

CrackedEarth properties:
• Changes browser settings
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

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CrackedEarth manual removal:

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Delete registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SearchHook
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\searchhook

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Unregister DLLs:
cglbar.dll, searchhook.dll, srchhook.dll

HELP:
how to unregister malicious DLLs

Delete files:
cglbar.dll, searchhook.dll, srchhook.dll

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Misc:
CrackedEarth files usually can be found in the default system directory, which is one of the following: C:\Windows\System, C:\Windows\System32, C:\Winnt\System32.

Information added: 2004-03-19 10:00:00
Information updated: 2005-09-22 03:03:53

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Jack

The homepage-hijacker adds a crackedearth.com search bar added to the bottom of your normal start page, and sends address bar searches to genieknows.com via a crackedearth.com frameset. May also add crackedearth.com bookmarks to your Favorites list.

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2004 03 01

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