Details of Virus 5-search

Adware refers to programs that display advertising using any means: pop-ups, banners, changes to the browser home page or search page, etc. The advertisements could be associated with the products or services offered by the creator of the program or by third-parties.

Adware can be installed in a number of ways, on some occasions without users consent, and either with or without users knowledge of its function.

It affects productivity, preventing tasks from being carried out:

• In the affected computer: it displays pop-up windows.

5-search redirects attempts to access several web pages to a specific IP address.

5-search does not spread automatically using its own means. It needs an attacking users intervention in order to reach the affected computer. The means of transmission used include, among others, floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, etc.