Title: Perez

Type: Browser Hijackers

Remove Perez. Removal instructions

Severity scale:

(29 / 100)

Perez is a browser hijacker that changes Internet Explorer default start and search pages, modifies related settings, redirects a web browser to predefined web sites. The parasite functions as an additional Internet Explorer toolbar. It doesn't spread and must be manually installed. Once executed, Perez creates a directory, drops files in it and alters the Windows registry to register itself as a web browser add-on. Perez comes with the uninstaller.

Perez properties:
• Changes browser settings
• Stays resident in background

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Perez manual removal:

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Kill processes:
toolbar.exe

HELP:
how to kill malicious processes

Delete registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Search Bar=[site address]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page=[site address]
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Use Custom Search URL=1
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Perezzz Software\IESearchToolbar
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{2C5175A2-ADF3-4F57-AB70-BA90FD60A383}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{EB381422-F797-4A98-A266-9DC490821907}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\{EB381422-F797-4A98-A266-9DC490821907}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{2C5175A2-ADF3-4F57-AB70-BA90FD60A383}
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{69753829-779C-45e7-9D8C-C79CE0989246}

HELP:
how to remove registry entries

Delete files:
toolbar.exe, iesearchtoolbar.dll, iesearchtoolbar_uninstall.exe

HELP:
how to remove harmful files

Delete directories:
C:\Program Files\IESearchToolbar
Misc:
[site address] is an address of the web site on the daosearch.com domain.

Information added: 2005-07-26 09:37:18
Information updated: 2005-07-26 09:37:18

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