What is Consumer Input?

Consumer Input is software application developed by Compete Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 47.29% of installations running this operating system. Consumer Input's installer is typically 8.00 MB in size and installs around 54 files.

Consumer Input is most popular in the United States with 98.38% of installations residing in this country.

Consumer Input adds 3 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About Consumer Input?

Consumer Input is a data collection and analytics software tool designed for Microsoft Internet Explorer, providing access to Compete.com's web traffic analysis service. Compete.com offers insights into global visitor numbers for leading websites, gathered from a variety of sources including internet service providers, opt-in panels, application providers, and Compete toolbar users. This software may be offered as an additional bundled feature by third-party software providers and installs a browser extension to track user habits. It's important to note that any inadvertently collected information may have been transmitted to Compete, but no such data was knowingly utilized in its services. However, it's worth mentioning that Compete has since made significant enhancements to our software and has eliminated any inadvertently collected information identified by our algorithms from our database. Our commitment is to provide valuable insights while maintaining the highest standards of data privacy and security.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Consumer Input.

ConsumerInputUpdate.exe (MD5: 96b43a7bddeee7df98983b886de56dc7) has been flagged by 6 scanners:

Scanner Software	Version	Result
Malwarebytes	v2014.04.23.12	PUP.Optional.ConsumerInput.A
Rising Antivirus	23.00.65.14421	PE:Trojan.GenericKDV!6.B5C
TrendMicro-HouseCall	7.2.113	TROJ_GEN.F47V0312
AVware	1.5.0.21	Compete (fs)
Symantec	20141.1.0.330	Infostealer.Consmiper
VIPRE Antivirus	34514	Compete (fs)

dca-monitoring.exe (MD5: ec4025f6b4b73e6a4d8bea6c5fec6101) has been flagged by 3 scanners:

Scanner Software	Version	Result
AVware	1.5.0.21	Compete (fs)
Symantec	20141.1.0.330	Infostealer.Consmiper
VIPRE Antivirus	34514	Compete (fs)

Software Behaviors

Services:

ConsumerInputUpdate.exe runs as a service named 'ConsumerInput Update Service (consumerinput_updatem)' (consumerinput_updatem) "Keeps your ConsumerInput software up to date. If this service is disabled or stopped, your ConsumerInput software will not be kept up to date, meaning security vulnerabilities that may arise cannot be fixed and features may not work. This service uninstalls itself when there is no ConsumerInput software using it.".

Scheduled tasks:

dca-monitoring.exe is scheduled as a task named 'CIMT_S-1-5-21-2730867797-2835857218-3356867553-1001' (runs daily at 9:34 AM).
ConsumerInputUpdate.exe is scheduled as a task named 'ConsumerInputUpdateTaskMachineUA' (runs daily at 2:59 PM).
dca-ua.exe is scheduled as a task named 'CI_DCA_UA{C3717BD3-6AC2-4dcd-83DE-F865C33AC5D9}' (runs daily at 17:28).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

ConsumerInputUpdate.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named ConsumerInputUpdateTaskMachineCore.

Registry entries:

dca-ua.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Consumer Input Update' and executes as C:\Program Files\Consumer Input\InternetExplorer\dca-ua.exe.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.consumerinput.com

Support:

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Installation path:

C:\Program Files\Consumer Input

Uninstaller:

"C:\Program Files\Consumer Input\CIuninstall.exe"

Size:

8.00 MB

Language:

English

Consumer Input Executable Details

Primary executable:

dca-monitoring.exe

Name:

Consumer Input

Path:

C:\Program Files\Consumer Input\dca-monitoring.exe

MD5:

ec4025f6b4b73e6a4d8bea6c5fec6101

SHA-1:

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SHA-256:

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File Type

Filename

MD5

EXE

uninstall.exe

b545af9970ed8b4eb07d27ac9a9dcdc0

DLL

logger.dll

b98790a5fb71ab0cbde517be497c6865

DLL

log4cxx.dll

8ef3a8a8106927cebe38d88e44251d56

DLL

dca-bho.dll

2c078b1faf002953a2ed83dabea2e68d

DLL

dca-api.dll

5c8bee4be56501616f4593ead8cea6fd

DLL

cpturlpassthru.dll

1a62b786055dbcb81624c4456012f8fe

EXE

ConsumerInputDiagnosticTool.exe

2e131453436dd5dd63a17e2fc69c8035

EXE

dca-ua.exe

5cc46a3309d45b96d3962523f5d2e98b

EXE

cookie-retriever.exe

7ff85cdc18143b6d07be1bec6784f065

EXE

dca-host.exe

3bca1fa7d52008b5b43f4acedc5b7d7a