Excellent Apps

Publisher Information

Excellent Apps is a software publisher located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the United States*. The company is a primary distributor of unwanted software. Excellent Apps (50onRed, International Web Services, LLC d/b/a GamePlayLabs/ Red Online Marketing Group LP) (also distributed under the names 215 Apps, Friendly Apps, Amazing Apps, etc.) is an adware producer of web browser extensions that are designed to inject advertisements and affiliate deals within the web pages the user is browsing. The company re-distributes a few dozen of the same adware type programs under a variety of product names (such as Luck Savings, Discount Buddy, Solid Savings, etc.) and company names through monetized bundled installations using the Crossrider toolbar platform.
Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
8/28/2012 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
8/29/2013 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=Excellent Apps, O=Excellent Apps, L=Philadelphia, S=Pennsylvania, C=US

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
6d2fb6375d3a8788b735fedbd060732b

Scanner detections:
Detections  (100% detected)

Scan engine
Details
Detections

Reason Heuristics
PUP.50OnRed (M), Trojan.MyStart (M)
100.00%

1 / 68      (Adware)
vid-saver-bg.exe (Vid-Saver by 215 Apps)  (af7e5d5655798ed5ea7cc789c1f738db)

1 / 68      (Adware)
buttonutil.dll  (65d3f6d582528ac5bbc238c8a78dc516)

1 / 68      (Adware)
vid-saver-ppi.exe (Vid-Saver by 215 Apps)  (2393352c55e22aad78220cef4dedfe33)

1 / 68      (Adware)
Shopping Sidekick.dll (Shopping Sidekick by 215 Apps)  (e4bc3d4460ac69715f4ac2ceb0598402)

1 / 68      (Adware)
shopping sidekick-bg.exe (Shopping Sidekick by 215 Apps)  (0207f9dd98d0727689497c8491303363)

1 / 68      (Adware)
buttonutil.dll  (ada9edf8a0995817e7889353addd8e9d)

1 / 68      (Adware)

1 / 68      (Adware)
supreme savings-bg.exe (Supreme Savings by 215 Apps)  (d5b88936ac4168ac2041987398ad14e9)

1 / 68      (Adware)
buttonutil.dll  (8251ca4076326782815d05f389ada948)

1 / 68      (Adware)
i want this-bg.exe (I Want This by 215 Apps)  (45753182e5f4cdb578bac6a6d2ddcb66)

1 / 68      (Adware)
buttonutil.dll  (26e6c2fa5be254f0af6db127b77e3b09)

1 / 68      (Adware)
vid-saver-rvs.exe (Vid-Saver by 215 Apps)  (fa56f94bb41da763e9263bb755fc9649)

1 / 68      (Adware)
savingsvault-gb-ppi.exe (Savings Vault by 215 Apps)  (813a90f10e7fd7df57a6bf4256520b2a)

1 / 68      (Adware)
vid-saver-bg.exe (Vid-Saver by 215 Apps)  (b0a2f0ac8ce7657d2030f6eb3b8da03f)

1 / 68      (Adware)
buttonutil.dll  (aa971c13413c1579628ea22621e08467)

1 / 68      (Adware)
discountbuddy_rowrev.exe (Discount Buddy by 215 Apps)  (8d991e05ca761c780f67ad266c8a6aac)

1 / 68      (Adware)
shoppingsidekick_au (Shopping Sidekick by 215 Apps)  (a5fb2f2a74c45a9af22b054996d13629)

1 / 68      (Adware)
giantsavings.exe (Giant Savings by 215 Apps)  (cfc46b86f8c94bcd8cf0d674233b585d)

1 / 68      (Adware)
buttonutil.dll  (63282b82458e929ca6051d8b8ccbb405)

1 / 68      (Adware)
vid-saver-bg.exe (Vid-Saver by 215 Apps)  (2d8bf40329cb6a58b163826056fb49c6)

1 / 68      (Adware)
Savings Explorer.dll (Savings Explorer by 215 Apps)  (bdbbedb9660dbb7a09592085c4d21b30)

1 / 68      (Adware)
buttonutil.dll  (414ff34fd5c5b26e8991907585cf4826)

1 / 68      (Adware)
vid-saver-bg.exe (Vid-Saver by 215 Apps)  (8597184ad19bdda0ef61334cdbb1f806)

1 / 68      (Adware)
buttonutil.dll  (74e0a7704b304a86d8ce81cbbab04616)

1 / 68      (Adware)
shopping-sidekick.exe  (167c6d2e06af91509a1f5007bb16ba2a)

1 / 68      (Adware)

1 / 68      (Adware)
deals plugin-bg.exe (Deals Plugin by 215 Apps)  (7555390cb7b4f8413216f5eb0834a402)

1 / 68      (Adware)
Deals Plugin.dll (Deals Plugin by 215 Apps)  (5adbe392ccb2b6a2d7257bc4a03c4771)

1 / 68      (Adware)
vid-saver-bg.exe (Vid-Saver by 215 Apps)  (7c661b45d6d77ff1fc63e47081d72b08)

1 / 68      (Adware)
buttonutil.dll  (861b3efdd1252becc2d0d82edf18aa19)

 
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* Note, the details and description above are based on the code signing digital signature issued to Excellent Apps by Thawte, Inc. on August 28, 2012 with the serial number '6d2fb6375d3a8788b735fedbd060732b'.