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popularscreensaverssetup.exe

PopularScreensavers

Mindspark Interactive Network

This is the installer stub for the Mindspark (Mindspark Interactive Network/Ask) browser toolbar which provides the offer to the end user to install the toolbar and set the browser's search, home page and new tab to an Ask.com search destination. The application popularscreensaverssetup.exe, “PopularScreensavers Setup” by Mindspark Interactive Network has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 6 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Mindspark Custom Setup installer. This version of the installer will bundle a Mindspark/MyWebSearch Toolbar, a potentially unwanted web browser extension.

File name:

Publisher:

Mindspark Interactive Network (signed and verified)

Product:

PopularScreensavers

Description:

PopularScreensavers Setup

Version:

1.0.0.6

MD5:

a078d262a5c1bc35197bfa71ccb047df

SHA-1:

a0a3cbe1fd4ab1a1730425446fdd3adcb7ac6218

SHA-256:

27445a40c279ce4d062a13d08206411ed083e3841eb01f75ada07130c3775845

Scanner detections:

6 / 68

Status:

Potentially unwanted

Explanation:

Bundles the Mindspark (MyWebSearch/Ask) toolbar, a web browser extension that will modify a user's search and home pages.

Description:

This 'download manager' is also considered bundleware, a utility designed to download software (possibly legitimate or opensource) and bundle it with a number of optional offers including ad-supported utilities, toolbars, shopping comparison tools and browser extensions.

Analysis date:

4/25/2024 3:07:04 PM UTC (today)

Scan engine

Detection

Engine version

avast!

Win32:Mindspark-A [PUP]

2014.9-140325

AVG

Zango

2015.0.3525

Dr.Web

Adware.MyWebSearch.47

9.0.1.084

Reason Heuristics

PUP.Installer.MindsparkInteractiveNetwork.Y

14.8.8.2

Trend Micro House Call

TROJ_GEN.F47V0112

7.2.84

VIPRE Antivirus

MyWebSearch.J

27494

File size:

2.3 MB (2,375,024 bytes)

Product version:

2.0.0.0

Trademarks:

Original file name:

suf_launch.exe

File type:

Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:

Mindspark Custom Setup

Language:

Engleski (Sjedinjene Države)

Common path:

C:\users\{user}\downloads\popularscreensaverssetup.exe

Digital Signature

Signed by:

Mindspark Interactive Network

Authority:

VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:

4/10/2012 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:

5/7/2015 1:59:59 AM

Subject:

CN=Mindspark Interactive Network, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=Mindspark Interactive Network, L=White Plains, S=NewYork, C=US

Issuer:

CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:

098417F7EA6406EC7B320590E17A65B7

File PE Metadata

Compilation timestamp:

8/27/2013 9:10:44 PM

OS version:

5.1

OS bitness:

Win32

Subsystem:

Windows GUI

Linker version:

10.0

CTPH (ssdeep):

49152:4R2X6pymME2HAD/W5Rsleo+PWceaMd6uIcc2wh69KMI2OqE+nvwkXiC:4hIm0gDHMxJMd6uxcG97auvrn

Entry address:

0x29E1

Entry point:

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Code size:

22 KB (22,528 bytes)

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