SearchProtection.exe
Search Protection by Spigot (Signed)
Overview
searchprotection.exe has 2 known versions, the most recent one is 9, 4, 0, 2. searchprotection.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. By adding a startup entry to the run registry key, the file will be executed when the user logs into Windows. The average file size is about 827.1 KB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to Spigot by the certification authority VeriSign. Some variations of the file have been seen to be installed with the program Search Protection from Spigot, Inc.. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0001% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 4.54 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 12.01 MB and typical read I/O operations are around 10.37 KB per minute.
 Details
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| File name: | searchprotection.exe |
| Publisher: | Spigot, Inc. |
| Product name: | Search Protection |
| Typical file path: | C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\search protection\searchprotection.exe |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Spigot |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Saturday, February 25, 2012 |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, March 28, 2015 |
Programs installed in
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of Search Protection.)
“The Spigot Search Settings is an application which is part of the Spigot Toolbar. Spigot searchsettings.exe'spurpose is to check periodically your default search engine and restore it to Yahoo in case...”
Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of searchprotection.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'SearchProtection' → "C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\Search Protection\SearchProtection.EXE" /autostart
All file variations of searchprotection.exe
