FreeTheMedia Player
Posted: November 24, 2015
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.
Threat Level: | 1/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 820 |
First Seen: | November 24, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | July 13, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The FreeTheMedia Player may not be a media player that security specialists advise PC users to install. Although its description may seem appealing, the FreeTheMedia Player is classified as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). You may experience a variety of errors or crashes of this application if you decide to install the FreeTheMedia Player. However, the majority of user complaints are not directed towards the performance of the FreeTheMedia Player. The people note that this PUP may interfere with their Web clients in a negative way. The FreeTheMedia Player is ad-supported so that it may inject large amounts of pop-ups, banners, in-text ads and other commercial materials in the Web clients. You may experience the same issues with all of your browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. The FreeTheMedia Player also may set some suspicious search engine as the homepage. The problems that may originate from unwanted coupons and deals are several. First, they may annoy you with their constant presence no matter which page you open. Second, the ads may disrupt the functionality of the Internet clients by using much of the system's resources. The potential glitches that you may encounter may consist of speed drops, freezes or even crashes. The third and most troubling feature of the FreeTheMedia Player concerns the partner network. Some of the affiliated sites may be threatening, so visiting them may result in hoaxes or system damage. Some PC users may install this PUP willingly, expecting it to work efficiently with over 15 file formats. The developers of the FreeTheMedia Player also promise a friendly interface, frequent updates and free technical support. If you cannot recall allowing the installation of this suspicious media player, then the FreeTheMedia Player might have come bundled with another cost-free application. You may encounter various fabricated errors if you attempt to delete the FreeTheMedia Player manually, so you should use a credible security solution
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:file.exe
File name: file.exeSize: 16.58 MB (16583632 bytes)
MD5: 6db9aaae459b5a343b2972def4cc6ba0
Detection count: 42
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 17, 2022
Registry Modifications
File name without pathFTM+.urlHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}{31555F19-E584-4CC9-8F97-8BA1A1CAD6E4}
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