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Free Ride Games Player

Posted: October 13, 2015

Threat Metric

Ranking: 2,932
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 151,756
First Seen: August 9, 2010
Last Seen: March 10, 2025
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Free Ride Games Player is a Potentially Unwanted Program that may be propagated with the help of unfair techniques and messages. According to its developers, the Free Ride Games Player is a useful utility that allows its users to access and play one of the 400+ Flash-based games quickly, which can be found on the Free Ride Games website. Although this may look like a great way to spice up you web browsing sessions, users should be aware that the installation of the Free Ride Games Player also may introduce several unwanted changes to their computers' behavior and their web browsers' configuration. The Free Ride Games Player may consume a significant fraction of the computer's hardware resources, so low-end PCs may experience performance issues because of this Potentially Unwanted Program's installation.

The Free Ride Games Player may be offered as an optional install when PC users attempt to install a freeware or shareware application that is bundled with a recent version of the Free Ride Games Player. Although the installation of the Free Ride Games Player is optional, some users may be confused and tricked by the misleading or deceptive instructions, and they may agree to install this Potentially Unwanted Program unknowingly Thankfully, the installation of the Free Ride Games Player isn't associated with threatening operations, so this app doesn't put your computer in danger. Regardless of this fact, users who didn't install the Free Ride Games Player on purpose and don't find this application's features useful are advised to take the necessary actions to remove the Free Ride Games Player and all of its components.

Aliases

VIPRE.Suspicious [Sunbelt]PUA.Packed.ASPack212 [ClamAV]PUA.Packed.ASPack [ClamAV]

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:



C:\Program Files (x86)\Free Ride Games\cmhelper.exe File name: cmhelper.exe
Size: 188.41 KB (188416 bytes)
MD5: 6f572cc37a0403927191f49aa95a6929
Detection count: 3,337
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Free Ride Games\cmhelper.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 10, 2025
C:\Program Files (x86)\Free Ride Games\IGL\10950100\GTR.exe File name: GTR.exe
Size: 2.53 MB (2539344 bytes)
MD5: 163648868ba26733a7fbe735dae13447
Detection count: 1,192
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Free Ride Games\IGL\10950100\GTR.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 10, 2025
AX32.dll File name: AX32.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
npGameTreatWidget.dll File name: npGameTreatWidget.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
GUpdater.exe File name: GUpdater.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Report.exe File name: Report.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
GUpdater.dll File name: GUpdater.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
GPlrLanc.exe File name: GPlrLanc.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
GameLauncher.exe File name: GameLauncher.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
exs.dll File name: exs.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
GameInst.dll File name: GameInst.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
npExentCtl.dll File name: npExentCtl.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
wh_Pr143.dll File name: wh_Pr143.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
AppLoader2KEx.dll File name: AppLoader2KEx.dll
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
X5XSEx_Pr143.sys File name: X5XSEx_Pr143.sys
File type: System file
Mime Type: unknown/sys
Group: Malware file
X5Ex_Pr143.sys File name: X5Ex_Pr143.sys
File type: System file
Mime Type: unknown/sys
Group: Malware file
C:\Program Files\free ride games\Free_Ride_Games.exe File name: C:\Program Files\free ride games\Free_Ride_Games.exe
MD5: 9a5e999c90861ce9b7906dbf429d4238
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

More files

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

CLSID{103DFC4E-147A-5606-9B4E-1C216DF227A1}{44D07CAA-4FC4-5A84-9951-A485AD808D0E}{7E8621A2-3513-5BAD-85D8-D624558847C7}{C9C1FD39-F2D3-50C9-AA6E-662D0EB26128}{FEFD8F9E-7F71-5307-A9E8-D2E60A4AAECA}File name without pathFree Ride Games.lnkwww.freeridegames[1].xmlHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\freeridegames.comSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\www.freeridegames.comSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Tracing\Free Ride Games_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Free Ride GamesSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Tracing\Free Ride Games_RASMANCSSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\Free Ride GamesHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}{2B7BDADB-EC8C-4C54-B5DD-CE45A016D3A7}

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Free Ride Games%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Free Ride Games%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Free Ride Games%PROGRAMFILES%\Free Ride Games%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Free Ride Games%USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Free Ride Games
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