Video Dimmer

Video Dimmer

Known Adware

by Small Island Development

What is Video Dimmer?

Video Dimmer is software application developed by Small Island Development. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 45.14% of installations running this operating system. Video Dimmer's installer is typically 1.00 MB in size and installs around 6 files. The most common release is 2.7.45 with 47.92% of all installations currently using this version.

Video Dimmer is most popular in the United States with 30.63% of installations residing in this country.

About Video Dimmer?

The Video Dimmer browser extension, developed by Injekt Media Group, is designed to integrate display advertising into the user's browsing experience. These advertisements appear in the form of banners and contextual text-links, and are inserted into the white space areas of HTML pages or over existing ads on the host website. The ads primarily promote PC optimization utilities, bundled malware, or other types of malvertising.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Video Dimmer.

VideoDimmerService.exe (MD5: a8152e01288101adada6752770bb96c5) has been flagged by 16 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
AVG Downloader
Avira ADWARE/Adware.Gen7
AVware MSIL.Adware.PullUpdate
Baidu-International Adware.MSIL.PullUpdate.bG
Dr.Web Adware.Yontoo.55
ESET-NOD32 a variant of MSIL/Adware.PullUpdate.G.gen
Fortinet FortiGate Adware/PullUpdate
K7GW DoS-Trojan ( 200fe2ad1 )
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.VideoDimmer.A
McAfee Artemis!A8152E012881
McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis
Panda Antivirus Adware/TVWizard
Sophos Generic PUA IJ
Symantec Trojan.Gen
TrendMicro-HouseCall Suspicious_GEN.F47V0201
VIPRE Antivirus MSIL.Adware.PullUpdate

Software Behaviors

Services:
  • VideoDimmerService.exe runs as a service named 'VideoDimmer' (VideoDimmer).

Software Details

URL:
https://www.videodimmertool.com
Support:
https://www.videodimmertool.com/about.html
Installation path:
C:\ProgramData\videodimmer
Uninstaller:
C:\ProgramData\VideoDimmer\uninstall.exe /kb=y /ic=1
Size:
1.00 MB
Language:
English

Video Dimmer Executable Details

Primary executable:
VideoDimmerService.exe
Name:
Video Dimmer
Path:
C:\ProgramData\videodimmer\VideoDimmerService.exe
MD5:
a8152e01288101adada6752770bb96c5
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Video Dimmer
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
edfcd097385697025fae5e62f25a322c
EXE
a8152e01288101adada6752770bb96c5
EXE
ba8644d038be9043fdcd88204e26148a
EXE
b6cc48f5451f261a13d7145d3af6ae5f
DLL
43d8260360836920c70309dc654b4498
DLL
d2ceecc5ec1d02394f606ac6a0a5c78c