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bsinstall.exe

Free Peers Inc.

The application bsinstall.exe, “BearShare Installer” by Free Peers has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 20 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Wise Installer installer.
Publisher:
Free Peers, Inc.  (signed by Free Peers Inc.)

Description:
BearShare Installer

Version:
4.6.1.2

MD5:
13bb50484b85adadb9a76f2e47dc63c9

SHA-1:
2270cce041c5b76a46daff9519261d685b40d3c2

SHA-256:
f84eb4b0b898d80c9e9a368af0be3787f6f43ae66bdc69dc452792987ee98834

Scanner detections:
20 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Analysis date:
5/17/2025 1:08:18 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Application.Whenu.Weathercast.G
555

Avira AntiVirus
ADSPY/Whenu.A.212
7.11.215.140

avast!
Win32:Whenu-I [PUP]
2014.9-150729

Bitdefender
Application.Whenu.Weathercast.G
1.0.20.1050

Bkav FE
W32.HfsAdware
1.3.0.6379

Comodo Security
UnclassifiedMalware
21358

Dr.Web
Adware.SaveNow
9.0.1.0210

ESET NOD32
Win32/Adware.SaveNow
9.11295

Fortinet FortiGate
Adware/SaveNow
7/29/2015

F-Secure
Application.Whenu.Weathercast
11.2015-29-07_4

G Data
Application.Whenu.Weathercast
15.7.25

K7 AntiVirus
Adware
13.200.15211

Kaspersky
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.SaveNow
14.0.0.1661

McAfee
Artemis!13BB50484B85
5600.6689

MicroWorld eScan
Application.Whenu.Weathercast.G
16.0.0.630

NANO AntiVirus
Riskware.Win32.SaveNow.dwkkk
0.30.0.296

Panda Antivirus
Trj/CI.A
15.07.29.07

Qihoo 360 Security
Win32/Application.fff
1.0.0.1015

Vba32 AntiVirus
Adware.SaveNow
3.12.26.3

ViRobot
Adware.SaveNow.3273736[h]
2014.3.20.0

File size:
3.1 MB (3,273,736 bytes)

Copyright:
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Peers, Inc.

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Installer:
Wise Installer

Language:
English (United States)

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Free Peers Inc.

Authority:
Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.

Valid from:
1/15/2004 8:43:19 AM

Valid to:
1/19/2005 11:12:22 AM

Subject:
CN=Free Peers Inc., OU=Corporate, O=Free Peers Inc., L=Miami Beach, S=Florida, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA, O=Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd., C=ZA

Serial number:
3DAA91

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/8/1999 4:24:47 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
98304:ldJ3EMxTYMnstN2Y3jRUBxv+vPaMjswb90U9Ujun:lP3EGY5tN2YeL+vSgj9TXn

Entry address:
0x1000

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 81, EC, 78, 05, 00, 00, 53, 56, BE, 04, 01, 00, 00, 57, 8D, 85, 94, FD, FF, FF, 56, 33, DB, 50, 53, FF, 15, 34, 20, 40, 00, 8D, 85, 94, FD, FF, FF, 56, 50, 8D, 85, 94, FD, FF, FF, 50, FF, 15, 30, 20, 40, 00, 8B, 3D, 2C, 20, 40, 00, 53, 53, 6A, 03, 53, 6A, 01, 8D, 85, 94, FD, FF, FF, 68, 00, 00, 00, 80, 50, FF, D7, 83, F8, FF, 89, 45, FC, 0F, 84, 7B, 01, 00, 00, 8D, 85, 90, FC, FF, FF, 50, 56, FF, 15, 28, 20, 40, 00, 8D, 85, 98, FE, FF, FF, 50, 53, 8D, 85, 90, FC, FF, FF, 68, 10, 30, 40, 00, 50...
 
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Entropy:
7.9987

Packer / compiler:
Wise Installer Stub

Code size:
512 Bytes (512 bytes)

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