Play Now Radio

Play Now Radio

Known Adware

by Montiera Technologies LTD

What is Play Now Radio?

Play Now Radio is software application developed by Montiera Technologies LTD. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 51.22% of installations running this operating system. Play Now Radio's installer is typically 560.00 KB in size and installs around 12 files.

Play Now Radio is most popular in the United States with 12.62% of installations residing in this country.

Play Now Radio adds 2 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About Play Now Radio?

This software may package a number of potentially unwanted adware applications upon installation, including Criteo, DealPly, RevenueHits, Matomy, JollyWallet, ACPlus50, OnRed, Superfish, OffersBar, and ThinkTank.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Play Now Radio.

playsetup.exe (MD5: 0300d76480202c34aa17bcdbef15a205) has been flagged by 32 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Adware.PayByAds.A
ALYac Adware.PayByAds.A
AVG Paybyads
Avira Adware/Montiera.447336
AVware Montiera (fs)
Baidu-International Hacktool.Win32.Montiera.b
Bitdefender Adware.PayByAds.A
Bkav FE W32.HfsAdware
CAT-QuickHeal Downloader.Montiera.r5 (Not a Virus)
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Adware.PayByAds
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Montiera.R
Fortinet FortiGate Riskware/Montiera
F-Secure Adware.PayByAds.A
G Data Adware.PayByAds
IKARUS anti.virus not-a-virus:Downloader.Montiera
K7 AntiVirus Unwanted-Program
Kaspersky not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.Montiera
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.PlayNowRadio.A
McAfee Artemis!0300D7648020
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.PUP.gh
MicroWorld-eScan Adware.PayByAds.A
nProtect Adware.PayByAds.A
Panda Antivirus Trj/CI.A
Qihoo-360 HEUR/QVM10.1.Malware.Gen
Sophos PayByAds
Symantec Trojan.Gen
Trend Micro TROJ_GEN.R0C1C0EAA15
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R0C1C0EAA15
VIPRE Antivirus Montiera (fs)
Zillya Downloader.Montiera.Win32.34
Antiy-AVL RiskWare[Downloader:not-a-virus]/Win32.Montiera
Comodo Security ApplicUnwnt
playnowradio.exe (MD5: 2d7f53e5391d8c48343121937abfa439) has been flagged by 22 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Adware.PayByAds.A
ALYac Adware.PayByAds.A
Antiy-AVL RiskWare[Downloader:not-a-virus]/Win32.Montiera
AVG Paybyads.893
Avira ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
AVware Montiera (fs)
Baidu-International Hacktool.Win32.Montiera.aaqb
Bitdefender Adware.PayByAds.A
Comodo Security ApplicUnwnt
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Adware.PayByAds.A (B)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Montiera.Q
Fortinet FortiGate Riskware/Montiera
F-Secure Adware.PayByAds.A
G Data Adware.PayByAds.A
Kaspersky not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.Montiera.b
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.PlayNowRadio.A
MicroWorld-eScan Adware.PayByAds.A
nProtect Adware.PayByAds.A
Panda Antivirus Trj/CI.A
Qihoo-360 Win32/Virus.Downloader.42e
Sophos PayByAds
VIPRE Antivirus Montiera (fs)

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:
  • playsetup.exe is scheduled as a task named '$crrUnisntlDsply$ Updater' (Next runs on 10/06/2017 at 14:45).
  • playnowradio.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Play Now Radio' (Next runs on 24/12/2014 at 13:45).

Startup Entries

Registry entries:
  • playnowradio.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Play Now Radio' and executes as C:\users\user\appdata\Local\playnowradio\playnowradio\1.3.15.8\playnowradio.exe.

Software Details

URL:
https://www.playnowradio.com
Support:
https://cdn.montiera.com/apps/playnowradio/info/privacy.html
Installation path:
C:\users\user\appdata\local\playnowradio\playnowradio\1.3.2.3
Uninstaller:
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\playnowradio\playnowradio\1.3.2.3\playnowradio.exe /uninstl
Size:
560.00 KB
Language:
English

Play Now Radio Executable Details

Primary executable:
playnowradio.exe
Name:
Play Now Radio
Path:
C:\users\user\appdata\local\playnowradio\playnowradio\1.3.2.3\playnowradio.exe
MD5:
2d7f53e5391d8c48343121937abfa439
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Play Now Radio
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
8759f7773b76d6fa16758bafc3485a9d
DLL
c5322eb2f74d91b6d58b879760097c2f
DLL
507d99ceebde670ab8b1cf32a93ad943
DLL
63d9dc3074050020414e3d47526b1d89
EXE
0300d76480202c34aa17bcdbef15a205
CRX
e65c1d30335fa131223c00df3bcda8df
DLL
33ce672cc70b50827ff978180ae6244b
DLL
6b1590c6dcb86f558d33632607149279
DLL
0e1d24c1df8c17f99a8229f3eabadd9a
DLL
527ece2b36ba2c1521cd6d0542937109