{"id":3746,"date":"2015-01-04T21:22:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T21:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:08","slug":"remove-video-dimmer-adware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-video-dimmer-adware\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove Video Dimmer Adware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers. Hope you are doing ok. Just a quick post on the <strong>Video Dimmer<\/strong> <strong>adware<\/strong>. It appears that Video Dimmer\u00a0has been around for some time, but now I noticed it bundled with several downloads.<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">If Video Dimmer is installed on your machine, you&#8217;ll find a new service installed and <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">videodimmerservice.exe<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"> running in the Windows Task Manager.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">I&#8217;ll show how to remove Video Dimmer in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, how did Video Dimmer install on your machine? It was probably <strong>bundled<\/strong> with some download that you installed recently. Bundling means that software is included in other software&#8217;s installers. Here&#8217;s how it appeared in the installer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/video-dimmer-installer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3747\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/video-dimmer-installer.png\" alt=\"video dimmer installer\" width=\"454\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/video-dimmer-installer.png 454w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/video-dimmer-installer-300x166.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I find some new bundled software I always upload it 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> to check if the anti-malware programs there find something. Of the 56 anti-virus scanners, 10 detected the file. AVG detects Video Dimmer as <strong>Downloader.CBD<\/strong>, Avira detects it as <strong>Adware\/PullUpdate.AP<\/strong>, Comodo names it <strong>ApplicUnwnt<\/strong>, Malwarebytes names it <strong>PUP.Optional.VideoDimmer.A<\/strong> and Qihoo-360 reports <strong>HEUR\/QVM03.0.Malware.Gen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>All you need to do to remove Video Dimmer is to check the Video Dimmer files in the scan result and click the Fix button. A reboot of your computer may be required to complete the removal. Just select the Video Dimmer files as shown in the screenshots below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/videodimmerservice.exe-service.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3749\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/videodimmerservice.exe-service.png\" alt=\"videodimmerservice.exe service\" width=\"743\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/videodimmerservice.exe-service.png 743w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/videodimmerservice.exe-service-300x104.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/video-dimmer-process.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3748\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/video-dimmer-process.png\" alt=\"video dimmer process\" width=\"584\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/video-dimmer-process.png 584w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/video-dimmer-process-300x186.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope this helped you solved the Video Dimmer problem.<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled upon Video Dimmer while testing out some downloads that are known to bundled lots of unwanted software. Any idea how Video Dimmer was installed on your computer? Please share your story the comments below. Thank you very much!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers. Hope you are doing ok. Just a quick post on the Video Dimmer adware. It appears that Video Dimmer\u00a0has been around for some time, but now I noticed it bundled with several downloads.If Video Dimmer is installed on your machine, you&#8217;ll find a new service installed and videodimmerservice.exe running in the Windows Task &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-video-dimmer-adware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remove Video Dimmer Adware<\/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":[3,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746"}],"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=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3750,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions\/3750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}