What is VideoTwister?

VideoTwister is software application developed by Pinball Corporation. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 81.82% of installations running this operating system. VideoTwister's installer is typically 1.00 MB in size and installs around 4 files. The most common release is 1.0.4.0 with 63.64% of all installations currently using this version.

VideoTwister is most popular in the United States with 89.29% of installations residing in this country.

VideoTwister adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About VideoTwister?

VideoTwister is a web browser plugin supported by advertising, which may include banner and in-text link advertisements. It is distributed through a range of monetization platforms during installation. This extension offers a variety of features designed to customize the browser's default or custom settings, including the home page and search settings.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in VideoTwister.

videotwisterSA.exe (MD5: a72b74832ff54293504f3c1b441db398) has been flagged by 30 scanners:

Scanner Software	Version	Result
Agnitum Outpost	7.1.1	Adware.Agent
AhnLab-V3	2013.11.23	Trojan/Win32.Gen
Avira AntiVir	7.11.115.42	TR/HotBarBZ.A.5
avast!	2014.9-131123	Win32:HotBar-BZ [Adw]
AVG	2014.0.3646	Skodna.Generic_r.L
Baidu-International	4.0.3.131123	AdWare.Win32.180Solutions.AC
Bitdefender	1.0.20.1635	Application.Generic.409502
CAT-QuickHeal	11.13.12.00	Adware.ClickPotato (Not a Virus)
Comodo Security	17316	UnclassifiedMalware
Dr.Web	9.0.0.0327	Adware.Zango.15
ESET-NOD32	7.9085	probably a variant of Win32/Adware.180Solutions
F-Prot	v6.4.7.1.166	W32/180Solutions.D.gen
F-Secure	11.2013-23-11_7	Application.Generic.409502
G Data	13.11.22	Application.Generic.409502
IKARUS anti.virus	t3scan.2.2.29	not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Shopper
Jiangmin	KV131123	Adware/HotBar.jb
K7 AntiVirus	13.174.10286	Adware
K7GW	13.174.10286	Riskware ( 0015e4f01 )
Kingsoft AntiVirus	331020.49267	Win32.Malware.Generic.a.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes	v2013.11.23.01	Adware.HotBar.CP
McAfee	5600.7268	RDN/Generic PUP.x!xi
McAfee-GW-Edition	7.7268	RDN/Generic PUP.x!xi
Microsoft Security Essentials	1.163.1557.0	Adware:Win32/ClickPotato
MicroWorld-eScan	14.0.0.981	Application.Generic.409502
NANO AntiVirus	0.28.0.56316	Trojan.Win32.Zango.yiuxq
Rising Antivirus	23.00.65.131121	Trojan.Win32.Generic.13235329
Sophos	4.95	Generic PUA GO
Trend Micro	10.465.23	TROJ_GEN.RCBC7JD
TrendMicro-HouseCall	7.2.327	TROJ_GEN.RCBC7JD
VIPRE Antivirus	23634	Pinball Corporation

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:

videotwisterSA.exe is scheduled as a task named 'RunAsStdUser Task' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Registry entries:

videotwisterSA.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'videotwisterSA' and executes as "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\videotwisterSA\bin\1.0.4.0\videotwisterSA.exe".

Software Details

URL:

https://www.videotwister.com

Support:

https://www.videotwister.com/support.html

Installation path:

C:\users\user\appdata\local\videotwistersa\bin\1.0.5.0

Uninstaller:

"C:\users\user\appdata\Local\videotwisterSA\bin\1.0.5.0\VideoTwisterUninstaller.exe" Web

Size:

1.00 MB

Language:

English

VideoTwister Executable Details

Primary executable:

videotwisterSA.exe

Name:

VideoTwister

Path:

C:\users\user\appdata\local\videotwistersa\bin\1.0.5.0\videotwisterSA.exe

MD5:

a72b74832ff54293504f3c1b441db398

SHA-1:

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SHA-256:

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File Type

Filename

MD5

EXE

VideoTwisterUninstaller.exe

f8b000bddfbb5feb09efbae6bc32f78d

DLL

videotwisterSAHook.dll

383ad298de7a7cf21b73784a236b9afa

EXE

videotwisterSA.exe

Malware