Desktop Temperature Monitor

Posted: September 12, 2014

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Ranking:	16,456
Threat Level:	2/10
Infected PCs:	16,374

First Seen:	September 12, 2014
Last Seen:	March 3, 2025
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Desktop Temperature Monitor, also referred to as Temmonitor, is a weather-monitoring utility that also includes adware features. These browser-modifying features may load additional advertisement content and redirect your browser to other sites automatically. Due to the replaceable nature of Desktop Temperature Monitor's benefits coupled with the Web-surfing performance and safety drawbacks inherent to all adware, malware researchers normally encourage removing Desktop Temperature Monitor with dedicated anti-adware products.

Monitoring the Problems with Desktop Temperature Monitor

While its name would seem to imply that Desktop Temperature Monitor monitors internal hardware temperatures, in reality, the poorly-named Desktop Temperature Monitor is a weather utility. Desktop Temperature Monitor does provide legitimate forecasts, temperature statistics and other weather-related data for the PC user's region, but also funds its 'free' services with adware-based browser changes. As is mentioned directly in its EULA, these changes to your Web browser may include:

Desktop Temperature Monitor may inject advertising hyperlinks into the text 'keywords' of unrelated websites.
Desktop Temperature Monitor also may load additional advertising elements, including graphical formats (such as pop-ups).
Lastly, Desktop Temperature Monitor may hijack your browser and redirect it to additional, full-page advertisements. These browser redirects are set to occur only after your browser has attempted to load a standard error message (for example, due to it failing to load a prior website).

Desktop Temperature Monitor does display a company logo in its advertising, which allows you to identify its advertisements separately from normal website content. However, Desktop Temperature Monitor does not offer controls for disabling these advertisements, short of uninstalling the software, itself. Since Desktop Temperature Monitor launches automatically with Windows, and maintains itself as a constant background process, its advertisements, therefore, may continue to load even if you aren't using its services.

Removing Desktop Temperature Monitor from Your PC's Desktop

Desktop Temperature Monitor isn't threatening and doesn't attempt to hide its presence or files. However, Desktop Temperature Monitor is categorized as a Potentially Unwanted Program that may cause your browser's performance to destabilize or introduce inadvertently undesirable advertising content to your Web browser. PC users comfortable with Desktop Temperature Monitor's features to drawbacks ratio need not treat Desktop Temperature Monitor as a critical threat. However, interaction with its advertisements isn't guaranteed to be safe, and malware researchers find uninstalling adware like Desktop Temperature Monitor normally to be the best reaction.

Whether it's called Temmonitor or Desktop Temperature Monitor, it may distribute itself via software bundles, including some that use unofficial versions of legitimate products like VLC Player. If you download software only from trusted, legitimate sources, unintended encounters with Desktop Temperature Monitor installers are likely to be minimal. When prevention fails to block Desktop Temperature Monitor's installation, any strong anti-adware program can be relied upon to remove the browser changes instigated by this weather application.

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:

%SystemDrive%\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\DesktopTemperature\DesktopTemperature.exe

File name: DesktopTemperature.exe
Size: 55.52 KB (55528 bytes)
MD5: bfb2497adad361f69c957eaa3654a44e
Detection count: 5
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %SystemDrive%\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\DesktopTemperature
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 19, 2016

More files

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\DesktopTemperatureSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\DesktopTemperature_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\DesktopTemperature_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\DTM_2_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\DTM_2_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\DTUpdater_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\DTUpdater_RASMANCSSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\DesktopTemperature.exeSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\DTM_2.exeSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\DesktopTemperatureSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\DesktopTemperature_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\DesktopTemperature_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\DTUpdater_RASAPI32SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\DTUpdater_RASMANCSSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\DTMUpdaterSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\DTMUpdaterSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\DTMUpdaterHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Desktop Temperature Monitor

Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Desktop Temperature%LOCALAPPDATA%\DesktopTemperature%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\DesktopTemperature

2 Comments

jane says:

November 9, 2014 at 1:52 pm

I hate this desktop temperature and I want it off my computer. When I go to remove it, it won't let me. Please help me get this off my computer.
Boyd McIntyre says:

February 28, 2015 at 11:21 am

This Desktop Temperature Monitor is wrecking my computer. I need simple instructions to remove it.