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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	SDL_net.dll	ebda8a0af2d997997c08ba50a7f4809d
EXE	~$Scheduler.exe	3c1092bfaf16531f8e1203a49f1dac38
DLL	asycfilt.dll	67555f7bbca95b7a9c900ef970a040da
EXE	UNWISE.EXE	5cf949316c40314d66b45f0bf00aa6f6
DLL	VirtualSearchProtocolHostPS.dll	606174d4e971228e54da09ed97fc1e75
EXE	VirtualSearchProtocolHost.exe	4ab573647f28e1fc996d80a874111f06
DLL	VirtualSearchHostPS.dll	38bc7d6ca62a2239b64ff8e8adad2fc5
EXE	VirtualSearchHost.exe	10e792979c3e70394788a00f88104fbe
DLL	VirtualOWSSuppManagerPS.dll	a349cded87d5945dd72e44feb8735c4a
EXE	VirtualOWSSuppManager.exe	bb9aaff123bbd94cb6f08230a3db7a89

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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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