{"id":1131,"date":"2014-07-25T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T08:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:50","slug":"what-is-wiredtools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/what-is-wiredtools\/","title":{"rendered":"What is WiredTools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found a program called <strong>WiredTools<\/strong>, which installed with the <strong>SoundFrost<\/strong> music download software. You might notice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/WiredTools.exe-133591\/\"><strong>WiredTools.exe<\/strong><\/a> running in the background or that it appears in the Add\/Remove programs dialog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WiredTools-Remove-Programs-Dialog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1132\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WiredTools-Remove-Programs-Dialog.png\" alt=\"WiredTools Remove Programs Dialog\" width=\"687\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WiredTools-Remove-Programs-Dialog.png 687w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WiredTools-Remove-Programs-Dialog-300x83.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WiredTools.exe-Task-Manager.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1133\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WiredTools.exe-Task-Manager.png\" alt=\"WiredTools.exe Task Manager\" width=\"604\" height=\"142\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WiredTools.exe-Task-Manager.png 664w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WiredTools.exe-Task-Manager-300x70.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have not figured out what the purpose of the <strong>WiredTools<\/strong> program is, but I think it looks suspicious. I could not see any disclosure in the SoundFrost installer that <strong>WiredTools<\/strong> would be installed.<\/p>\n<p>I uploaded WiredTools.exe to VirusTotal. Only one of the scanners detected the file, as\u00a0<strong>HEUR\/Malware.QVM10.Gen<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WiredTools-Virus-Total.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WiredTools-Virus-Total.png\" alt=\"WiredTools Virus Total\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WiredTools-Virus-Total.png 851w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WiredTools-Virus-Total-300x111.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you also find <strong>WiredTools<\/strong> on your computer? Did you also get it while installing SoundFrost?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found a program called WiredTools, which installed with the SoundFrost music download software. You might notice WiredTools.exe running in the background or that it appears in the Add\/Remove programs dialog: &nbsp; I have not figured out what the purpose of the WiredTools program is, but I think it looks suspicious. I could not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/what-is-wiredtools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is WiredTools?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1135,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1131\/revisions\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}