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

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
CRX
fa34881c6a5823f5e69fe3f729d0b657
DLL
d15a890352c37f869041f852f677387b
EXE
1692966d27d39e7d89aa2ddc4025b72d
EXE
54fe4acdec81013acf71777b561b4686
DLL
9ccfc9b9ad5c38ac102e842b525525f2