Price-Horse

Price-Horse

Known Adware

by Montiera Technologies LTD

What is Price-Horse?

Price-Horse is software application developed by Montiera Technologies LTD. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 50.00% of installations running this operating system. Price-Horse's installer is typically 0.92 MB in size and installs around 61 files.

Price-Horse is most popular in the United States with 45.69% of installations residing in this country.

Price-Horse adds 2 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About Price-Horse?

Price Horse is a web browser extension that displays advertisements to the user while browsing the internet. These ads can appear as traditional banners or context-hyper links and are not limited to specific websites or affiliates. It should be noted that the ads are not endorsed by the websites on which they appear. The software regularly connects to remote servers to update its ad content and also tracks the user's browsing activity, including visited domains and URLs, as well as clicked links and advertisements. Additionally, Price Horse is often included as part of bundled offers with 3rd party download managers, which may include other potentially unwanted programs. Please note that using Price Horse may result in an increase in unwanted advertisements and tracking of browsing activity.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Price-Horse.

pricehorse.exe (MD5: c7bfb42eeff9cb9cca568f2c6001b7d0) has been flagged by 38 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Antiy-AVL RiskWare[Downloader:not-a-virus]/Win32.Agent
AVware Montiera (fs)
Kaspersky not-a-virus:Downloader.Win32.Agent
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.PayByAds.A
McAfee Artemis!C7BFB42EEFF9
McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis!C7BFB42EEFF9
Panda Antivirus Trj/Chgt.C
TrendMicro-HouseCall Suspicious_GEN.F47V0802
VIPRE Antivirus Montiera (fs)
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Adware.PayByAds.A
Agnitum Outpost PUA.Buen!
AhnLab-V3 Adware/Win32.Generic
ALYac Adware.PayByAds.A
AVG Paybyads.893
Avira ADWARE/buen.532360
Baidu-International PUA.Win32.Montiera.R
Bitdefender Adware.PayByAds.A
Bkav FE W32.HfsAdware.DFDF
CAT-QuickHeal AdWare.Buen.r5 (Not a Virus)
Comodo Security ApplicUnwnt
Cyren W32/Application.SKYB-3345
Dr.Web Adware.Toolbar.372
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Adware.PayByAds.A (B)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Montiera.R potentially unwanted
Fortinet FortiGate Riskware/Montiera
F-Secure Adware.PayByAds.A
G Data Adware.PayByAds.A
IKARUS anti.virus not-a-virus:Downloader.Montiera
K7 AntiVirus Trojan ( 004afd6d1 )
K7GW Trojan ( 004afd6d1 )
MicroWorld-eScan Adware.PayByAds.A
nProtect Adware.PayByAds.A
Qihoo-360 HEUR/QVM10.1.Malware.Gen
Sophos PayByAds
Symantec Trojan.Gen.2
Trend Micro TROJ_GEN.F0C2C00LS14
ViRobot Adware.PayByAds.532360[h]
Zillya Adware.Buen.Win32.2

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:
  • pricehorse.exe is scheduled as a task named '$crrUnisntlDsply$' (Next runs on 9/29/2015 at 8:55 PM).
  • playsetup.exe is scheduled as a task named '$crrUnisntlDsply$ Udpater' (Next runs on 9/29/2015 at 8:55 PM).

Startup Entries

Registry entries:
  • pricehorse.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named '$crrUnisntlDsply$' and executes as C:\users\user\appdata\Local\pricehorse\pricehorse\1.3.13.12\pricehorse.exe.

Software Details

URL:
Support:
Installation path:
C:\users\user\appdata\local\pricehorse\pricehorse\1.3.10.2
Uninstaller:
"C:\users\user\appdata\Local\pricehorse\pricehorse\1.3.10.2\pricehorse.exe" /uninstl
Size:
0.92 MB
Language:
English

Price-Horse Executable Details

Primary executable:
pricehorse.exe
Name:
Price-Horse
Path:
C:\users\user\appdata\local\pricehorse\pricehorse\1.3.10.2\pricehorse.exe
MD5:
c7bfb42eeff9cb9cca568f2c6001b7d0
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Price-Horse
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
6e461ffae7725d3446ad27c8a2c25c1d
DLL
3f65536ddb10c924d35fb7e1cde56274
DLL
37eaed4c955f917b4cd50894fca7cd81
DLL
f0d6405868e8afc4bf4e62b1186b0a1b
DLL
fab3a0019446b52d338847f0d5dd2090
DLL
a06121bdfe6ac4dc1641931f8e3298ac
DLL
f60c0d1c7b1fe220b9c73399bcac3e2e
DLL
f7800cbd9667f238622d5fadaf64b2b6
DLL
39ee79cda2c53b57791095ea261f0a91
DLL
2386f04c905c75504b11eee81f727b42