Media Watch

Media Watch

Known Adware

by Adware.BetterSurf

What is Media Watch?

Media Watch is software application developed by Adware.BetterSurf. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 66.31% of installations running this operating system. Media Watch's installer is typically 550.00 KB in size and installs around 158 files.

Media Watch is most popular in the United States with 38.84% of installations residing in this country.

About Media Watch?

Media Watch is a browser extension that delivers advertisements to users while they browse the web. This software is supported by advertising and utilizes a cross-framework browser extension to display banner and text-link ads.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Media Watch.

MediaWatchV1home268.dll (MD5: 62eb039f4bdc747cebeea4686792413c) has been flagged by 38 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Agnitum Outpost PUA.BetterSurf!
AhnLab-V3 Adware/Win32.BetterSurf
Avira AntiVir ADWARE/Adware.Gen
Antiy-AVL GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus]/Win32.BetterSurf
AVG Skodna.Generic_r.HW
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.BetterSurf.aFWu
Bitdefender Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Comodo Security ApplicUnwnt
Dr.Web Adware.BetterSurf.2
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844 (B)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/AdWare.BetterSurf.C
Fortinet FortiGate Adware/BetterSurf
F-Secure Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
G Data Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Jiangmin AdWare/BetterSurf.b
K7 AntiVirus Adware ( 004918961 )
K7GW Adware ( 004918961 )
Kaspersky not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.BetterSurf.b
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.BetterSurf.b.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.MediaWatch.A
McAfee Adware-BetterSurf
McAfee-GW-Edition Heuristic.BehavesLike.Win32.Suspicious.H
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
NANO AntiVirus Riskware.Win32.BetterSurf.cvrrct
Panda Antivirus Generic Malware
Qihoo-360 HEUR/Malware.QVM30.Gen
Rising Antivirus PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.169C56AC!379344556
Sophos BetterSurf
Symantec Adware.BL
Trend Micro TROJ_GEN.R0CBC0ECP14
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R0CBC0ECP14
Vba32 AntiVirus AdWare.BetterSurf
VIPRE Antivirus BetterSurf
nProtect Adware.BetterSurf.H
avast! Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
IKARUS anti.virus not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.BetterSurf
ViRobot Adware.BetterSurf.87040.BL
MediaWatchV1home265.dll (MD5: 90c8b78fb3219ebdafa8b493bd30c2ab) has been flagged by 31 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Agnitum Outpost PUA.BetterSurf!
AhnLab-V3 Adware/Win32.BetterSurf
Avira AntiVir ADWARE/Adware.Gen
AVG Skodna.Generic_r.HW
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.BetterSurf.AND
Bitdefender Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Dr.Web Adware.BetterSurf.2
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844 (B)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/AdWare.BetterSurf.C
F-Secure Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
G Data Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Jiangmin AdWare/BetterSurf.b
Kaspersky not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.BetterSurf.b
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.BetterSurf.b.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.MediaWatch.A
McAfee-GW-Edition Heuristic.BehavesLike.Win32.Suspicious.H
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Panda Antivirus Generic Malware
Rising Antivirus PE:Malware.BetterSurf!6.11BF
Sophos Generic PUA GG
Symantec Adware.BL
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R08NH07CN14
VIPRE Antivirus BetterSurf
Antiy-AVL GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus]/Win32.BetterSurf
Comodo Security Application.Win32.AdWare.BetterSurf.C
McAfee Adware-BetterSurf
NANO AntiVirus Riskware.Win32.BetterSurf.cvtdtw
nProtect Adware.BetterSurf.H
Qihoo-360 HEUR/Malware.QVM30.Gen
Fortinet FortiGate Adware/BetterSurf
MediaWatchV1home2642.dll (MD5: 262a2e8a001b0ecd1a668d2590895f66) has been flagged by 29 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
AhnLab-V3 Adware/Win32.BetterSurf
Avira AntiVir ADWARE/Adware.Gen
AVG Skodna.Generic_r.HW
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.BetterSurf.aT
Bitdefender Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Dr.Web Adware.BetterSurf.2
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844 (B)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/AdWare.BetterSurf.C
F-Secure Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
G Data Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Jiangmin AdWare/BetterSurf.b
Kaspersky not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.BetterSurf.b
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.BetterSurf.b.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.MediaWatch.A
McAfee-GW-Edition Heuristic.BehavesLike.Win32.Suspicious.H
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Panda Antivirus Generic Malware
Qihoo-360 HEUR/Malware.QVM30.Gen
Rising Antivirus PE:Malware.BetterSurf!6.11BF
Sophos Generic PUA CC
Symantec Adware.BL
VIPRE Antivirus BetterSurf
McAfee Adware-BetterSurf
NANO AntiVirus Riskware.Win32.BetterSurf.cvtdtw
Comodo Security ApplicUnwnt
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R08NH07CN14
nProtect Adware.BetterSurf.H
Antiy-AVL GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus]/Win32.BetterSurf
MediaWatchV1home256.dll (MD5: 50287905d153016517eec4c737443291) has been flagged by 37 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Agnitum Outpost PUA.BetterSurf!
AhnLab-V3 Adware/Win32.BetterSurf
Avira AntiVir ADWARE/Adware.Gen
Antiy-AVL GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus]/Win32.BetterSurf
AVG Skodna.Generic_r.HW
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.BetterSurf.Aee
Bitdefender Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Comodo Security ApplicUnwnt
Dr.Web Adware.BetterSurf.2
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844 (B)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/AdWare.BetterSurf.C
Fortinet FortiGate Adware/BetterSurf
F-Secure Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
G Data Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Jiangmin AdWare/BetterSurf.b
K7 AntiVirus Unwanted-Program ( 0040f7f51 )
K7GW Unwanted-Program ( 0040f7f51 )
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.BetterSurf.b.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.MediaWatch.A
McAfee Adware-BetterSurf
McAfee-GW-Edition Heuristic.BehavesLike.Win32.Suspicious.H
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
NANO AntiVirus Riskware.Win32.BetterSurf.cvrrct
Panda Antivirus Generic Malware
Qihoo-360 HEUR/Malware.QVM30.Gen
Rising Antivirus PE:Trojan.Win32.Generic.169BDF93!379314067
Sophos BetterSurf
Symantec WS.Reputation.1
Trend Micro TROJ_GEN.R0CBC0PCQ14
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R0CBC0PCQ14
VIPRE Antivirus BetterSurf
Kaspersky not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.BetterSurf.b
nProtect Adware.BetterSurf.H
avast! Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
Vba32 AntiVirus AdWare.BetterSurf
IKARUS anti.virus not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.BetterSurf
MediaWatchV1home254.dll (MD5: 4a61cd9c59c5c13bc58063c124dbb4fd) has been flagged by 24 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
AhnLab-V3 Adware/Win32.BetterSurf
Avira AntiVir ADWARE/Adware.Gen
AVG Skodna.Generic_r.HW
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.BetterSurf.aPax
Bitdefender Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Dr.Web Adware.BetterSurf.2
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844 (B)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/AdWare.BetterSurf.C
F-Secure Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
G Data Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Jiangmin AdWare/BetterSurf.b
Kaspersky not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.BetterSurf.b
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.BetterSurf.b.(kcloud)
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Adware.Graftor.125844
Panda Antivirus Generic Malware
Rising Antivirus PE:Malware.BetterSurf!6.11BF
Symantec Adware.BL
VIPRE Antivirus BetterSurf
Qihoo-360 HEUR/Malware.QVM30.Gen
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R0C1H07CM14
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.MediaWatch.A
McAfee-GW-Edition Heuristic.BehavesLike.Win32.Suspicious.H
Sophos Generic PUA AG

Software Details

URL:
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Support:
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Installation path:
C:\Program Files\mediawatchv1\mediawatchv1home135
Uninstaller:
C:\Program Files\MediaWatchV1\MediaWatchV1home135\uninstall.exe
Size:
550.00 KB
Language:
English

Media Watch Executable Details

Primary executable:
MediaWatchV1home279.dll
Name:
Media Watch
Path:
C:\Program Files\mediawatchv1\mediawatchv1home135\MediaWatchV1home279.dll
MD5:
02e308c7aaabc7355d164441dcccf109
SHA-1:
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SHA-256:
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Files installed by Media Watch
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
MediaWatchV1home2469.dll
Adware
d8884b6ff2c7ed7e04fd2bd406936aea
DLL
MediaWatchV1home244.dll
Adware
82f8983d10821770b8be3fb79d42c74a
DLL
MediaWatchV1home242.dll
Malware
d9034e38324be807dba677fa6a3f8c3a
DLL
MediaWatchV1home237.dll
Adware
47dc26722917581507030c14b4886026
DLL
MediaWatchV1home236.dll
Adware
e67236e8ed85440c42de4138b100809b
DLL
MediaWatchV1home2336.dll
Malware
4555e1c1b1e570e97acd2ea45e819b96
DLL
MediaWatchV1home232.dll
Malware
62a286608417ec97c092b2f6677865f6
DLL
MediaWatchV1home2302.dll
eb82aa212664deaba269ee610a8a6cf8
DLL
MediaWatchV1home23.dll
Adware
665f1148f0a9c7f375b5747e5ccf2622
DLL
MediaWatchV1home226.dll
Malware
37ca92ad051d8f0941da0887ff8a30c4