winengine

winengine

Known Adware

by Ad business Crown Solutions

What is winengine?

winengine is software application developed by Ad business Crown Solutions. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 50.82% of installations running this operating system. winengine's installer is typically 1.00 MB in size and installs around 4 files.

winengine is most popular in Germany with 50.00% of installations residing in this country.

About winengine?

Winengine is a potentially unwanted program known to display intrusive pop-ups on your computer, potentially leading to the installation of unwanted software and malicious browser extensions affecting Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox. It aims to provide users with cost-saving suggestions during online purchases, presenting comparison deals in the form of text boxes as they browse.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in winengine.

rkr0.exe (MD5: 6f5f777e26b1cdf96a503cb963b2bf25) has been flagged by 16 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Adware.Cyclon.A
ALYac Adware.Cyclon.A
avast! Win32:Malware-gen
AVG Generic
AVware Cyclon-Media (fs)
Bitdefender Adware.Cyclon.A
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Adware.Cyclon
F-Secure Adware.Cyclon.A
G Data Adware.Cyclon
MicroWorld-eScan Adware.Cyclon.A
nProtect Adware.Cyclon.A
Symantec Adware.Gen
Tencent Win32.Risk.Adw.Wrhf
Trend Micro ADW_CYCLON
TrendMicro-HouseCall ADW_CYCLON
VIPRE Antivirus Cyclon-Media (fs)

Startup Entries

Registry entries:
  • rkr1.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'winengine2' and executes as C:\users\user\appdata\Local\winengine\rkr1.exe.
  • rkr0.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'winengine' and executes as C:\users\user\appdata\Local\winengine\rkr0.exe.

Software Details

URL:
Support:
Installation path:
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\winengine
Uninstaller:
"C:\users\user\appdata\Local\winengine\ark_uninstaller.exe"
Size:
1.00 MB
Language:
English

winengine Executable Details

Primary executable:
rkr0.exe
Name:
winengine
Path:
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\winengine\rkr0.exe
MD5:
6f5f777e26b1cdf96a503cb963b2bf25
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by winengine
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
f88097d278b319cb079a8af2bbc33fec
EXE
7910fac87a82213eca4e0e689a7e08eb
EXE
65e0e29db545ea693a78d0f8b158b646
EXE
rkr0.exe
Malware
6f5f777e26b1cdf96a503cb963b2bf25