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Mixxen Player

Posted: November 27, 2014

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 370
First Seen: November 27, 2014
Last Seen: July 19, 2022
OS(es) Affected: Windows


Mixxen Player is not the right application that you should download if you wish to listen to radio stations directly from your browsers. This suspicious program is an advertising-supported software or adware for short. You may find it on two different websites that are identical – mixxen.com and gruvvin.com. Mixxen Player also may be bundled with other free programs, so you may not understand in time you are about to install it. The sites that host this adware say that it is supported by ads. However, they don't mention the true nature of the commercials. According to mixxen.com and gruvvin.com, Mixxen Player relies on the audio ads that all radio stations play once in a while. In reality, however, this adware may inject rather aggressive pop-ups, banners, interstitial ads and transitional ads in the Web pages that you open. This performance is typical of the majority of ad-oriented extensions. Mixxen Player may compromise Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. You may find the unwanted add-on in the add-on managers of your Web clients, but the built-in to disable functions may not work properly. The questionable program also may load promoted sites as soon as you go online. It may interfere with your searching experience as well by putting sponsored links above the best-matching results. The developers of Mixxen Player may try to redirect you towards affiliated pages because they receive pay-per-click commissions for the service. There is no mechanism that can assess the legitimacy of the partner sites and block the potentially threatening ones. As a result, some of the new ads may transfer you to corrupted or fraudulent platforms. This possible scenario is the reason the experts advise you to ignore all commercial materials by Mixxen Player. Since the adware also may deteriorate the performance of your browsers, the recommended course of action is to delete it fully with suitable security software.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

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The following files were created in the system:



"C:\ProgramData\Mixxen\uninstall.exe" File name: "C:\ProgramData\Mixxen\uninstall.exe"
Mime Type: unknown/exe"
Group: Malware file
C:\ProgramData\mixxen\Mixxen.exe File name: C:\ProgramData\mixxen\Mixxen.exe
MD5: e9502e4d9fb57376c6c0d3c97ddc8b08
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathMixxen.lnkHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Mixxen

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Mixxen%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Mixxen%LOCALAPPDATA%\Mixxen
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