{"id":1432,"date":"2014-08-14T05:18:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T05:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=1432"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:47","slug":"score-exe-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/score-exe-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Score.exe Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was testing the <a title=\"Smart Secure Software S.l \u2013 Bundling and VirusTotal Report\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/smart-secure-software-s-l\/\">Smart Secure Software<\/a> download,\u00a0that is known to bundle lots of unwanted programs. After going through the installer a new service appeared on the machine\u00a0called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/score.exe-135631\/\">score.exe<\/a>. I though the file looked suspicious, since it was unsigned, had no version information, dropped in the c:\\Windows folder, \u00a0and no entry in the Add\/Remove programs dialog.<\/p>\n<p>To my surprise none of the anti-virus programs over at VirusTotal detected the file:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/score.exe-virustotal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1433 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/score.exe-virustotal.png\" alt=\"score.exe virustotal report\" width=\"938\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/score.exe-virustotal.png 938w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/score.exe-virustotal-300x58.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see if any of the anti-virus scanners starts to pick up score.exe.<\/p>\n<p>So, should the score.exe file be removed? Yes I think so. You can remove it from FreeFixer by selecting the <strong>score.exe<\/strong> process and service:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/scores.exe-service.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1435 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/scores.exe-service.png\" alt=\"scores service\" width=\"824\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/scores.exe-service.png 824w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/scores.exe-service-300x108.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 824px) 100vw, 824px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/scores.exe-process.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1434\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/scores.exe-process.png\" alt=\"scores.exe process\" width=\"377\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/scores.exe-process.png 377w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/scores.exe-process-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/scores.exe-process-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you also find <strong>score.exe<\/strong> on your machine? Any idea how it got there?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 2014-10-07<\/strong>: Many of the anti-virus programs are now detecting <strong>score.exe<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AVG Agent5.HW<\/li>\n<li>AVware Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra<\/li>\n<li>Ad-Aware Trojan.Generic.11822832<\/li>\n<li>Avast Win32:Dropper-gen [Drp]<\/li>\n<li>Baidu-International Trojan.Win32.Agent.BWGA<\/li>\n<li>BitDefender Trojan.Generic.11822832<\/li>\n<li>Cyren W32\/Trojan.KZBC-4044<\/li>\n<li>ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32\/Agent.WGA<\/li>\n<li>Emsisoft Trojan.Generic.11822832 (B)<\/li>\n<li>F-Secure Trojan.Generic.11822832<\/li>\n<li>Fortinet W32\/Agent.WGA!tr<\/li>\n<li>GData Trojan.Generic.11822832<\/li>\n<li>Ikarus Trojan.Win32.Agent<\/li>\n<li>McAfee Artemis!08675763B644<\/li>\n<li>McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis<\/li>\n<li>MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.Generic.11822832<\/li>\n<li>Qihoo-360 Win32\/Trojan.Dropper.c9f<\/li>\n<li>Symantec Trojan.Gen.2<\/li>\n<li>TheHacker Trojan\/Agent.wga<\/li>\n<li>TrendMicro TROJ_GEN.R0C1C0EJ514<\/li>\n<li>TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R0C1C0EJ514<\/li>\n<li>VIPRE Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra<\/li>\n<li>nProtect Trojan.Generic.11822832<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was testing the Smart Secure Software download,\u00a0that is known to bundle lots of unwanted programs. After going through the installer a new service appeared on the machine\u00a0called\u00a0score.exe. I though the file looked suspicious, since it was unsigned, had no version information, dropped in the c:\\Windows folder, \u00a0and no entry in the Add\/Remove programs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/score-exe-removal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Score.exe Removal Instructions<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432"}],"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=1432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}