melondrea

melondrea

Known Adware

by Yontoo Technology, Inc.

What is melondrea?

melondrea is software application developed by Yontoo Technology, Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 63.57% of installations running this operating system. melondrea's installer is typically 2.00 MB in size and installs around 15 files. The most common release is 2014.02.26.051729 with 24.51% of all installations currently using this version.

melondrea is most popular in Brazil with 31.12% of installations residing in this country.

About melondrea?

This software program serves advertisements by injecting them with affiliate ad providers, offering various ad types such as banners, inline text links, and popups.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in melondrea.

updatemelondrea.exe (MD5: 83f6c4c3adb8a014aa8bddc23fb82f7b) has been flagged by 41 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.4
AhnLab-V3 Win-PUP/BrowseFox.Gen
ALYac Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.4
Antiy-AVL GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus,HEUR]/MSIL.Kranet
avast! Win32:BrowseFox-FE [PUP]
AVG Generic
Avira ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen7
AVware Yontoo (fs)
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.BrowseFox.BI
Bitdefender Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.4
Bkav FE W32.HfsAdware
Comodo Security ApplicUnwnt
Dr.Web Trojan.BPlug.252
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.H
Fortinet FortiGate Adware/Kranet
F-Prot W32/S-481ec56b
F-Secure Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.4
G Data Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse
IKARUS anti.virus PUA.BrowseFox
K7 AntiVirus Adware
K7GW Adware ( 700000121 )
Kaspersky not-a-virus:HEUR:AdWare.MSIL.Kranet
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.Generic.a.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.Melondrea.A
McAfee BrowseFox.c
McAfee-GW-Edition BrowseFox.c
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.4
NANO AntiVirus Riskware.Win32.BPlug.djpkri
Panda Antivirus Trj/Chgt.G
Qihoo-360 Win32/Virus.Adware.708
Sophos Generic PUA OO
Symantec Trojan.Gen
Trend Micro TROJ_GEN.R047C0PJL14
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R047C0PJL14
VIPRE Antivirus Yontoo (fs)
Agnitum Outpost PUA.Agent!
Avira AntiVir APPL/BrowseFox.Gen2
CAT-QuickHeal AdWare.Agent.r5 (Not a Virus)
SUPERAntiSpyware Adware.BrowseFox/Variant
Vba32 AntiVirus AdWare.Agent
melondreaBHO.dll (MD5: df8c63e1aff9bba5991cf040b61344a0) has been flagged by 32 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
Agnitum Outpost PUA.Agent!
Avira AntiVir APPL/BrowseFox.Gen2
Antiy-AVL GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus]/Win32.Agent
AVG BrowseFox.F
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.BrowseFox.bF
Bitdefender Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
CAT-QuickHeal AdWare.Agent.r5 (Not a Virus)
Comodo Security Application.Win32.Altbrowse.AK
Dr.Web Trojan.BPlug.17
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4 (B)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.F
Fortinet FortiGate Adware/Agent
F-Secure Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
G Data Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
IKARUS anti.virus not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Agent
K7 AntiVirus Unwanted-Program ( 00454f261 )
K7GW Trojan ( 050000001 )
Kaspersky not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Agent.ahbx
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.Agent.ah.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.Melondrea.A
McAfee Artemis!DF8C63E1AFF9
McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis!DF8C63E1AFF9
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Adware.BHO.Agent.4
NANO AntiVirus Riskware.Win32.Agent.crkvek
Sophos Generic PUA HK
SUPERAntiSpyware Adware.BrowseFox/Variant
Symantec PUA.Maltrec.TS!g8
Trend Micro TROJ_SPNV.03F514
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_SPNV.03F514
Vba32 AntiVirus AdWare.Agent
VIPRE Antivirus Yontoo (fs)

Software Behaviors

Services:
  • updatemelondrea.exe runs as a service named 'Update melondrea' (Update melondrea).

Software Details

URL:
https://melondrea.net/support
Support:
https://mailto:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\melondrea
Uninstaller:
C:\Program Files\melondrea\melondreauninstall.exe
Size:
2.00 MB
Language:
English

melondrea Executable Details

Primary executable:
melondrea.BrowserFilter.Helper.dll
Name:
melondrea
Path:
C:\Program Files\melondrea\melondrea.BrowserFilter.Helper.dll
MD5:
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SHA-1:
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SHA-256:
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Files installed by melondrea
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
7za.exe
e92604e043f51c604b6d1ac3bcd3a202
EXE
FilterApp_C64.exe
0aa7ecf859ba2631cc0e066c2e1ad51c
DLL
XTLS.dll
67a8a7b8b939bb6fb03184f236f724ad
EXE
XTLSApp.exe
38dcf478cd6a59cb0d4cd280071c2fdd
EXE
FilterApp_C.exe
a4cfaa002ee496b8efc7a50e9e2414f6
EXE
updatemelondrea.exe
Adware
83f6c4c3adb8a014aa8bddc23fb82f7b
EXE
melondreaUninstall.exe
e48b41e3ce31d4025f0768795cf7433f
DLL
melondreaBHO.dll
Malware
df8c63e1aff9bba5991cf040b61344a0
EXE
melondrea.FirstRun.exe
fe00206510b0af9d1b3c36bb678ea681
EXE
melondreaUn.exe
a86c4498d2ba94d068b993ebee148507