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

MonitoringTool-3.2.1-606.exe

06fd963d5ef6fa2ff49f39d45aca62c9

EXE

MonitoringTool-3.2.1-572.exe

c9975ee3ae489f7d8f973a4c08aa9548

EXE

MonitoringTool-3.2.1-401.exe

eecaccf25d07afcaa158827a9b8dd1fd

EXE

MonitoringTool-3.2.1-361.exe

f98291661324bdfd9645a03237643d5d

EXE

MonitoringTool-3.2.1-348.exe

48b0d18f4b76eba0d479179da5fcd6bb

EXE

MockCIIE.exe

5ace13692f04ed014e70892339138b24

DLL

goopdateres_zh-CN.dll

59b639b1e2b5cbcf80f14ac3e5af0f0b

DLL

goopdateres_ja.dll

05252e218bbd67e9da32fbc358e89039

DLL

goopdateres_fr.dll

0922b30b8ec9bb6dfb75dde948c50d82

DLL

goopdateres_es-419.dll

bf738856a9519d416f2618b7536413d3