Playmediaplayer.com

Playmediaplayer.com is a website that distributes Potentially Unwanted Programs and threats by disguising their installers to look like fake software updates. Despite its name, current fake updates for Playmediaplayer.com appear to be disguised as patches for your browser, with the payloads including adware programs that modify your browser to display unwanted advertisements. As with all domains that have been classified as infection vectors, malware researchers would discourage any contact with Playmediaplayer.com and, in particular, any downloading of software from this site. For your PC's safety, and even if you haven't installed anything on purpose, anti-malware scans always should be considered after contact with Playmediaplayer.com.

Playmediaplayer.com: Playing Your Browser a Song with Lying Lyrics

While adware is easy money for its developers, perhaps the most troublesome aspect of it is encouraging PC users to install it. In some particularly unscrupulous cases, developers become desperate enough to use outright tactics as a means of 'encouragement,' and Playmediaplayer.com is one of the many sites known to have a part to play in these tactics. With a presence on blacklists for spamming-related activities and associations with threats, Playmediaplayer.com shouldn't be considered a safe site to visit, although its latest payload is a simple piece of adware that's an unlikely source of any extensive damage to your computer.

Playmediaplayer.com delivers this adware, a product previously analyzed by malware experts under the title of Win32/DomaIQ, as a fake software update for your Web browser. Which browser is referenced may vary with the actual browser you use so that Internet Explorer users may see an IE patch, Chrome users may see a patch for Chrome, etc. Fortunately, malware experts haven't noted any current use of software exploits that could install the DomaIQ adware onto your computer. However, this could very well change in the future.

Keeping Advertisements from Slipping in Your Software Updates

Playmediaplayer.com's DomaIQ adware only is remarkable for its particularly illegal way of installing itself, rather than for any of its major advertising functions (such as its pop-ups). However, malware researchers still consider the removal of fraudulently-installed software to be a very foundational part of keeping your computer safe. The use of appropriate anti-malware products for this removal process also should be considered, just in case Playmediaplayer.com includes other software in its latest fake updates.

The user also has his own part to play in protecting his system from Playmediaplayer.com, separate from the responsibilities and features of dedicated anti-malware products. Because of the existence of sites just like Playmediaplayer.com, malware researchers continually urge all PC users with Internet access to avoid software updates that come from unauthorized sources. If you make a habit of installing update packages from legitimate websites, you'll be able to circumvent the attacks of many sites like Playmediaplayer.com that require the willing participation from the victim to manage an attack.