INSTALL DOT EXE

Publisher Information

INSTALL DOT EXE is a software developer located in Kansas City, Missouri in the United States*. The company is a primary distributor of unwanted software. Run by Adknowledge, this pay-per-installer of bundled adware using the Optimum Installer distributes toolbars, adinjection web browser extensions, coupon bars and a number of potentially unwanted utilities through sites such as wisedownloads.com. InstallerDotExe is owned by Adknowledge, as well as Tiny Installer, and Fusion installer (these are the exact same installer and same offer stack but are coded slightly differently all to negate certain AV flags).
Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
10/3/2013 8:00:00 PM

Valid to:
9/20/2014 7:59:59 PM

Subject:
CN=INSTALL DOT EXE, OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O=INSTALL DOT EXE, L=Kansas City, S=Missouri, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)10, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
4c8303b332693fcf64e1e7dfd7841493

Scanner detections:
Detections  (100% detected)

Scan engine
Details
Detections

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Adknowledge (M)
100.00%

1 / 68      (Adware)
player-chrome - copy.exe (Premium Installer)  (28a34ada769fdcc954df8c530bf4f5d9)

1 / 68      (Adware)
update.exe (Premium Installer)  (5e2f223f23b71eb7e10385308bdbd2c8)

1 / 68      (Adware)
chrome_setup.exe (Premium Installer)  (3186f353dd1d91db0868cb7a1c57a0b6)

1 / 68      (Adware)
chrome_setup.exe (Premium Installer)  (69b765f066dc9eb101c1fadb2aa83071)

1 / 68      (Adware)
updater_setup.exe (Premium Installer)  (8e1cf87a756feb1f30772e700e543ba6)

1 / 68      (Adware)
updater_setup.exe (Premium Installer)  (1bd4861a99c1f2a6003d8e5638a0f0a9)

1 / 68      (Adware)
updater_setup.exe (Premium Installer)  (8fc2fee41168254a976dd565731e6c93)

1 / 68      (Adware)
player-chrome.exe (Premium Installer)  (4b6013f07233c3b6a6dc3434cf2f86d5)

1 / 68      (Adware)
player-chrome.exe (Premium Installer)  (fa7922ddced727a50796cdf73edf2a75)

1 / 68      (Adware)
player-chrome.exe (Premium Installer)  (b3ac04bd480a5f7a9f3ac9a8a3d434e3)

1 / 68      (Adware)
update.exe (Premium Installer)  (2e83fd25b1447fc07bbc2d3cac23c705)

1 / 68      (Adware)
player-chrome.exe (Premium Installer)  (1bacad4346e86d258f530c4359551db6)

1 / 68      (Adware)
update.exe (Premium Installer)  (28aa983ad625f470a5cc32baacb898b0)

1 / 68      (Adware)
updater_setup.exe (Premium Installer)  (7ffdd4c08964bf856612bbf85cade0b3)

1 / 68      (Adware)
player.exe (Premium Installer)  (2e3f5acd1181e91c9a01010c9872c987)

1 / 68      (Adware)
player-chrome.exe (Premium Installer)  (69f478dff4981d438bd62a3eef9cff59)

1 / 68      (Adware)
download.exe (Premium Installer)  (91b6bbaf8066a71e22ae643df74baebc)

1 / 68      (Adware)
the_sims_3_complete_2013.exe (Premium Installer)  (ecc00ebe788e8c3649f6f2386d74a2a9)

1 / 68      (Adware)
setup.exe (Premium Installer)  (2cf1a54a6dd7a94fae8980e146d4a1bd)

1 / 68      (Adware)
setup.exe (Premium Installer)  (70ed52046539d345959d8da8dbe99d7f)

1 / 68      (Adware)
setup.exe (Premium Installer)  (762c8764d7f1c2ac968e48e7f2e5794e)

1 / 68      (Adware)
love affair 1994 avi.exe (Premium Installer)  (fd84de4261e3cfff77dfa4a6c3f64ca3)

1 / 68      (Adware)
love affair 1994 avi.exe (Premium Installer)  (b01e24c8d6b2abef0daec6a242a108c6)

1 / 68      (Adware)
player-firefox.exe (Premium Installer)  (368214f9d196789cf6ee0f7b335224a2)

1 / 68      (Adware)
player-firefox.exe (Premium Installer)  (5980db0c862d8e8ae662f7df6a0e59ec)

1 / 68      (Adware)
player-firefox.exe (Premium Installer)  (a7a007d08b9b7ff5a4e0e064858212ff)

1 / 68      (Adware)
player-firefox.exe (Premium Installer)  (1610b8b299835c3c4a75cc7da544b834)

1 / 68      (Adware)

1 / 68      (Adware)

1 / 68      (Adware)
update.exe (Premium Installer)  (cc4927c117586a2a3c1e1f684dc45f24)

 
Latest 30 of 20,186 files

Downloads URLs for files signed by INSTALL DOT EXE.

1 / 68      (Adware)
http://secure.oinstaller.com/o/.../Player.exe  (2e3f5acd1181e91c9a01010c9872c987)

1 / 68      (Adware)
http://secure.oinstaller.com/o/.../Player-Chrome.exe  (69f478dff4981d438bd62a3eef9cff59)

1 / 68      (Adware)

1 / 68      (Adware)
http://downloadju.com/direct/.../update.exe  (479dc2306286f1490f0ed87e32626f33)

1 / 68      (Adware)
http://downloadju.com/direct/.../update.exe  (61a990a05b65d88e5cd9c2ffce5de496)

1 / 68      (Adware)
http://secure.oinstaller.com/o/.../Player-Chrome.exe  (4ebaedba7a9aa953fbdea453eac01f28)

The following publishers (by Authenticode signature organization name) are related.

* Note, the details and description above are based on the code signing digital signature issued to INSTALL DOT EXE by VeriSign, Inc. on October 03, 2013 with the serial number '4c8303b332693fcf64e1e7dfd7841493'.