Adware.MediaViewer Ads
Posted: March 5, 2014
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Ranking: | 4,615 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 11,085 |
First Seen: | March 5, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | October 9, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Media Viewer is adware that is known for displaying random pop-up advertisements and messages and attempting to add additional functions to the favorite Web browser. The pop-up ads from Media Viewer may unwillingly redirect PC users to unwanted websites or the ones that may attempt to advertise other products and services. Media Viewer may be an annoying application which may provide PC users with random offers, sales, discount coupons or deals through its pop-up advertisements and messages and attempt to make money from ad clicks. Media Viewer may also continuously reroute computer users to unidentified websites that were designed to probably earn money from raised website traffic.
Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:MediaViewerV1alpha5483Installer.exe
File name: MediaViewerV1alpha5483Installer.exeSize: 967.44 KB (967447 bytes)
MD5: 03a0699dc4d82fa200a7e0658ac97654
Detection count: 37
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 17, 2022
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\MediaViewerV1Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{e92f9daa-428d-41e9-9505-913fb598fa87}SOFTWARE\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions\ext@MediaViewerV1alpha5483.netSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MediaViewerV1SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions\ext@MediaViewerV1alpha5483.net
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