{"id":3182,"date":"2014-11-26T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T15:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:47","slug":"file-verified-detected-as-installmetrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/file-verified-detected-as-installmetrix\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;File Verified&#8221; &#8211; 11% Detection Rate &#8211; InstallMetrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! Just a short note on a publisher called <strong>File Verified<\/strong> that I just found while going through some of the latest additions in the FreeFixer library.<\/p>\n<p>What caught my attention was that the download was called <strong>Chrome_Updater.exe<\/strong>. This might look like official Chrome software, but it is not. If it was an official &#8220;Chrome Updater&#8221;, it should have been digitally signed by <strong>Google Inc.<\/strong> and not by some company that no one never heard of.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that\u00a0File Verified file is detected by some of the anti-malware scanners, according to <a title=\"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a>. Avira reports Chrome_Updater.exe as <strong>Adware\/InstallMet.hc<\/strong>, ESET-NOD32 detects it as <strong>a variant of Win32\/Adware.InstallMetrix.F<\/strong>, Norman detects it as <strong>InstallMetrix.E<\/strong> and VIPRE reports <strong>InstallMetrix (fs)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/File-Verified.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3183\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/File-Verified.png\" alt=\"File Verified\" width=\"653\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/File-Verified.png 653w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/File-Verified-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 653px) 100vw, 653px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did you also find a File Verified download? What kind of download was it?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome! Just a short note on a publisher called File Verified that I just found while going through some of the latest additions in the FreeFixer library. What caught my attention was that the download was called Chrome_Updater.exe. This might look like official Chrome software, but it is not. If it was an official &#8220;Chrome &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/file-verified-detected-as-installmetrix\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;File Verified&#8221; &#8211; 11% Detection Rate &#8211; InstallMetrix<\/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":[54],"tags":[250],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182"}],"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=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3184,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/3184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}