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What is Search Protect?

Search Protect is software application developed by Client Connect LTD. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 49.90% of installations running this operating system. Search Protect's installer is typically 16.00 MB in size and installs around 331 files. The most common release is 2.22.26.1 with 2.70% of all installations currently using this version.

Search Protect is most popular in the United States with 58.91% of installations residing in this country.

Search Protect adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About Search Protect?

Search Protect, a product from Client Connect (formerly known as Conduit, now a part of Perion), is a software designed to modify homepage and search provider settings. Upon installation, it changes default web browser settings to navigate to a partner portal such as Trovi.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Search Protect.

cltmng.exe (MD5: 59f0fab281ee4cc5a7aeebbeaf8d0cd8) has been flagged by 11 scanners:

Scanner Software	Version	Result
Agnitum Outpost	7.1.1	Riskware.SearchProtect
Baidu-International	4.0.3.14530	Adware.Win32.Conduit.81
Dr.Web	9.0.0.0150	Adware.Conduit.84
ESET-NOD32	8.9849	a variant of Win32/Conduit.SearchProtect.I
Fortinet FortiGate	5/30/2014	Riskware/Conduit_SearchProtect
G Data	14.5.24	Win32.Application.SearchProtect
Malwarebytes	v2014.05.30.01	PUP.Optional.Conduit.A
Panda Antivirus	14.05.30.01	PUP/Conduit.A
VIPRE Antivirus	29622	Conduit (fs)
AVG	2015.0.3438	SearchProtect
TrendMicro-HouseCall	7.2.171	TROJ_GEN.F47V0526

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:: cltmng.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Rocket Updater' (runs daily at 02:03).

Software Details

URL:: https://www.conduit.com/searchprotect
Support:: –
Installation path:: C:\Program Files\searchprotect\searchprotect\bin
Uninstaller:: "C:\Program Files1\SearchProtect\Main\bin\uninstall.exe" /S
Size:: 16.00 MB
Language:: English

Search Protect Executable Details

Primary executable:: cltmng.exe
Name:: Search Protect
Path:: C:\Program Files\searchprotect\searchprotect\bin\cltmng.exe
MD5:: 59f0fab281ee4cc5a7aeebbeaf8d0cd8
SHA-1:: –
SHA-256:: –

Files installed by Search Protect

File Type	Filename	MD5
DLL	vc32.dll	040c9346a5274fcb8b9c65a7ae043990
DLL	mp3decdll.dll	36d3bc94fe7b7eecc806fdc897e2a1aa
DLL	mp3dec2.dll	064896aa67e830554e3f75b6aedf9027
EXE	McBootSvcSet.exe	39fbef4af9d4347b9f64b1b5eeaeeef9
EXE	DAP.exe	7a814107d1ff1a199e706b8c8f01478b
EXE	DAPConf.exe	0ded8a6a5702ef33fb310d15a202058e
EXE	dapfirefox.exe	677fb76e74c11a8dc932ff1cda1b2807
DLL	dapie.dll	8b7684067706ba66dff4920de2ac4faa
DLL	DAPIEEngine.dll	da0c0559731cc755244230446495cd1b
DLL	DAPIEMonitor.dll	8bb3bbf43fcb0718c78499c9ad204fed

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Popularity

21% of users keep Search Protect installed

Overall Rating

Bad

Known Versions (51)

3.1.5.104: 0.24%
3.1.5.86: 0.14%
3.1.5.77: 0.11%
3.1.5.50: 0.16%
3.1.5.28: 0.03%
3.1.5.19: 0.01%
3.1.4.33: 0.22%
3.1.4.5: 0.36%
3.1.3.90: 0.25%
3.1.3.17: 0.39%
3.1.3.13: 0.05%
3.1.2.21: 0.27%
3.1.2.6: 0.10%
3.0.410.11: 0.34%
3.0.400.27: 0.11%
3.0.310.22: 0.12%
3.0.300.22: 0.60%
3.0.200.15: 0.43%
3.0.100.41: 0.35%
3.0.90.9: 0.46%
3.0.80.11: 0.45%
3.0.60.38: 0.76%
3.0.50.0: 0.42%
3.0.30.5: 0.66%
3.0.10.81: 0.07%
3.0.10.64: 0.56%
3.0.3.67: 0.45%
3.0.3.39: 0.05%
3.0.3.31: 0.00%
3.0.2.4: 0.01%
3.0.1.18: 0.01%
2.23.60.24: 1.14%
2.23.50.1: 0.53%
2.23.40.10: 0.12%
2.23.32.25: 0.75%
2.23.31.14: 0.41%
2.23.31.13: 0.04%
2.23.30.9: 0.99%
2.23.10.51: 1.56%
2.23.0.250: 0.02%
2.22.30.32: 0.13%
2.22.26.1: 2.70%
2.22.25.5: 0.01%
2.22.20.11: 0.38%
2.22.0.160: 1.67%
2.21.200.26: 0.91%
2.21.20.22: 1.71%
2.21.0.205: 0.00%
2.21.0.204: 0.88%
2.20.101.12: 0.00%
2.20.30.80: 0.21%

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