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APN LLC

Domain Information

The domain media.ask.com registered by Ask.com was initially registered in October of 1998 through MARKMONITOR INC.. This domain has been known to host and distribute potentially unwanted software. The hosted servers are located in Seattle, Washington within the United States which resides on the IAC Search & Media Inc network. The domain is associated with the publisher APN LLC who is located in Oakland, California in the United States.
Registrar:
MARKMONITOR INC.

Server location:
Washington, United States (US)

Create date:
Tuesday, October 20, 1998

Expires date:
Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Updated date:
Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Root domain:
ask.com

Whois:
1 ask.com record

Scanner detections:
Detections  (100% detected)

Scan engine
Details
Detections

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Ask.W, PUP.Installer.Ask.P, PUP.Installer.Ask.Q, PUP.Installer.Ask.i
100.00%

ESET NOD32
Win32/Bundled.Toolbar.Ask (variant)
75.00%

The domain media.ask.com has been seen to resolve to the following IP address.

66.235.120.109
media.iad.ask.com
August 10, 2014

File downloads found at URLs served by media.ask.com.

2 / 68      (PUP)
http://media.ask.com/media/toolbar/supertoolbar/profile-ask/.../IECrowdstarToolbarInstaller_CDS_tbr_sa_1.8.1.0.exe  (ffcrowdstartoolbarinstaller_cds_tbr_1.8.1.0.exe)

2 / 68      (PUP)
http://media.ask.com/media/toolbar/.../AskInstallChecker-1.8.0.0.exe  (0cfe2496e19fc81f5572dc2945008120)

2 / 68      (PUP)
http://media.ask.com/media/toolbar/supertoolbar/.../FFASKToolbarInstaller_ASK_tbr_1.6.2.0.exe  (ask-com-toolbar.exe)

1 / 68      (PUP)
http://media.ask.com/media/toolbar/.../AskSearchUtility.exe  (0cac8bdca178023ad837bc87d1cf2ca9)

The following file have been seen to comunicate with media.ask.com in live environments.

TCP » 66.235.120.109:80
Magentic_Install.exe (Magentic Installer)

URL:
http://media.ask.com/

Web server:
Apache/2.2.11 (Unix)

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