SecureServicePack is a possible spyware application that will display an advertising banner above some of the user's search results. Many adware Applications make money in this fashion. Every time a user clicks on one of the advertisements, the application will keep track of the click and report to the host site, which will then give the company a certain amount of money. Due to the nature of the SecureServicePack Application, it is considered a Possible Spyware Application and we suggest removal of it.

I infected a machine with this spyware application to see what it would do and how I could remove it. This article contains some images of things that I saw while infected with the SecureServicePack Application. There is also more information about the possible spyware application, what it does, and how I removed it.

SecureServicePack Application

I installed the SecureServicePack Application and found that while browsing with Internet Explorer and using www.google.com to search, a banner would appear during certain searches that would display an advertisement. For the most part, the advertisements that were displayed were not related to the search item. The search page would still display below the advertisement banner, but there would be a large image above the search page that would send you to the advertisers website if you were to click on it.

Not all words I searched would display an ad or redirect me, in fact, a majority of the time there were no symptoms displayed at all. Some of the search words that brought up an advertising banner were;

Dog, cat, car, vacation, home, food, restaurant and job

The advertisements varied, but seem to be consistent with the word that was searched. For example; searching for Cat brought up an advertisement for seeandtalk.com and minivac.grandbajaresort.com with an image saying to "Pack your bags." Searching for the word Car came up with an advertising banner for fkinteractive.com.

I looked for the SecureServicePack Application in the Add and Remove Programs list and the Program list from the Start Menu and found nothing. When I dug deeper, I found that there was a folder created in my Program Files directory for SecureServicePack5, which contained an uninstall.exe file. When the uninstaller runs, it will unregister and delete a .dll file associated with it, which seems to make the advertisements go away.

Screenshots:

Searching for the word Car displayed this:

Searching for the word Cat displayed this:

Searching for the word Home displayed this:

Searching for the word Vacation displayed this:

Searching for the word Porn redirected the page to this:

Think you have SecureServicePack Application?

If you think you may have the SecureServicePack Application and are having trouble removing it, Scan your computer with an Anti-Spyware program to see if it will be detected. Our software, Stop-Sign Threat Scanner, will detect this Possible Spyware Application, and it will give you the option to remove it.*

DISCLAIMER: This is a description of what I saw while the SecureServicePack Application was installed, I cannot verify the validity of the sites that were advertised and whether or not they have anything to do with the application. In my opinion, this is an Adware application that has no end user benefit.

*StopSign Threat Scanner will only remove threats once you are a paid member, you can learn more about the StopSign Computer Protection Software at www.stopsign.com