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	Version	Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware	662	Adware.PayByAds.A
ALYac	1.0.1.4	Adware.PayByAds.A
AVG	2016.0.3140	Paybyads
Avira	7.11.203.160	Adware/Montiera.447336
AVware	1.5.0.21	Montiera (fs)
Baidu-International	4.0.3.15413	Hacktool.Win32.Montiera.b
Bitdefender	1.0.20.515	Adware.PayByAds.A
Bkav FE	1.3.0.6379	W32.HfsAdware
CAT-QuickHeal	4.15.14.00	Downloader.Montiera.r5 (Not a Virus)
Emsisoft Anti-Malware	8.15.04.13.07	Adware.PayByAds
ESET-NOD32	9.11048	a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Montiera.R
Fortinet FortiGate	4/13/2015	Riskware/Montiera
F-Secure	11.2015-13-04_2	Adware.PayByAds.A
G Data	15.4.24	Adware.PayByAds
IKARUS anti.virus	t3scan.1.8.6.0	not-a-virus:Downloader.Montiera
K7 AntiVirus	13.191.14703	Unwanted-Program
Kaspersky	14.0.0.2196	not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.Montiera
Malwarebytes	v2015.04.13.07	PUP.Optional.PlayNowRadio.A
McAfee	5600.6796	Artemis!0300D7648020
McAfee-GW-Edition	7.6796	BehavesLike.Win32.PUP.gh
MicroWorld-eScan	16.0.0.309	Adware.PayByAds.A
nProtect	15.01.19.01	Adware.PayByAds.A
Panda Antivirus	15.04.13.07	Trj/CI.A
Qihoo-360	1.0.0.1015	HEUR/QVM10.1.Malware.Gen
Sophos	4.98	PayByAds
Symantec	4/13/2015 rev. 2	Trojan.Gen
Trend Micro	10.465.13	TROJ_GEN.R0C1C0EAA15
TrendMicro-HouseCall	7.2.103	TROJ_GEN.R0C1C0EAA15
VIPRE Antivirus	36840	Montiera (fs)
Zillya	2.0.0.2041	Downloader.Montiera.Win32.34
Antiy-AVL	1.0.0.1	RiskWare[Downloader:not-a-virus]/Win32.Montiera
Comodo Security	20417	ApplicUnwnt

playnowradio.exe (MD5: 2d7f53e5391d8c48343121937abfa439) has been flagged by 22 scanners:

Scanner Software	Version	Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware	12.0.163.0	Adware.PayByAds.A
ALYac	1.0.1.4	Adware.PayByAds.A
Antiy-AVL	1.0.0.1	RiskWare[Downloader:not-a-virus]/Win32.Montiera
AVG	15.0.0.4253	Paybyads.893
Avira	7.11.196.218	ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
AVware	1.5.0.21	Montiera (fs)
Baidu-International	3.5.1.41473	Hacktool.Win32.Montiera.aaqb
Bitdefender	7.2	Adware.PayByAds.A
Comodo Security	20417	ApplicUnwnt
Emsisoft Anti-Malware	3.0.0.600	Adware.PayByAds.A (B)
ESET-NOD32	10905	a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Montiera.Q
Fortinet FortiGate	5.0.999.0	Riskware/Montiera
F-Secure	11.0.19100.45	Adware.PayByAds.A
G Data	24	Adware.PayByAds.A
Kaspersky	15.0.1.10	not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.Montiera.b
Malwarebytes	1.75.0.1	PUP.Optional.PlayNowRadio.A
MicroWorld-eScan	12.0.250.0	Adware.PayByAds.A
nProtect	2014-12-19.01	Adware.PayByAds.A
Panda Antivirus	4.6.4.2	Trj/CI.A
Qihoo-360	1.0.0.1015	Win32/Virus.Downloader.42e
Sophos	4.98.0	PayByAds
VIPRE Antivirus	35900	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:

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SHA-256:

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File Type

Filename

MD5

DLL

chromext.dll

c891d60b5587a46fd10fa8dc3bb1a770

EXE