Hello readers! Hope you are having a good time and not too many malware issues. Currently I’m on a short vacation, but I brought the laptop since I found a few new malware programs that I wanted to post about.

Found something called UniversalUpdater while testing out another download. If you’ve got UniversalUpdater on your machine, you’ll notice UpdateService.exe and CrashMon.exe running in the Windows Task Manager.

So, what’s are those two files? Well, a few of the anti-virus scanners over at VirusTotal flags the files as you can see in the screenshot. Artemis and Alnaddy are two of the detection names.

I could not see any entry for UniversalUpdater in the Add / Remove programs dialog. However, removing UniversalUpdater is easy with FreeFixer, just select the CrashMon.exe and UpdaterService.exe file for removal:

Did you also find UniversalUpdater on you machine? Any idea how it was installed?