{"id":788,"date":"2014-06-06T08:15:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T08:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=788"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:52","slug":"media_play_air-removal-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/media_play_air-removal-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"Media_Play_AIR+ &#8211; Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to let you know about a new adware variant called\u00a0<strong>Media_Play_AIR+<\/strong> that I found tonight. 8 of the 50 anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detects the <strong>Media_Play_AIR_1.1-bg.exe<\/strong> file, which you may see in the Windows Task Manager: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+-virustotal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-792\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+-virustotal.png\" alt=\"media_play_air+-virustotal\" width=\"916\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+-virustotal.png 916w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+-virustotal-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/a> Some of the anti-virus program calls <strong>Media_Play_AIR+<\/strong>\u00a0Artemis, CrossRider and AppRider.<\/p>\n<p>These are the variants I&#8217;ve found so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Media_Play_AIR+_1.1<\/li>\n<li>Mediaa_Play_AIR_1.4<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I found\u00a0<strong>Media_Play_AIR+<\/strong> bundled with a Zip\/Unzip utility. The setup file was digitally signed by <a title=\"Clovermedia SL Digital Signature \u2013 WARNING!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/clovermedia-digital-signature\/\">CloverMedia SL<\/a>.\u00a0How did you get <strong>Media_Play_AIR<\/strong> on your computer? The <strong>Media_Play_AIR+<\/strong> files are digitally signed by individual developer\u00a0<strong>SIMONA-VIORICA MARIN<\/strong>, which according to the certificate is located in Bucharest, Romania. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+_1.1-bg.exe-certificate.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-849 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+_1.1-bg.exe-certificate.png\" alt=\"Media_Play_AIR+_1.1-bg.exe certificate\" width=\"778\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+_1.1-bg.exe-certificate.png 778w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+_1.1-bg.exe-certificate-300x173.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/a> You can remove\u00a0<strong>Media_Play_AIR+<\/strong> with <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>. Just select the\u00a0<strong>Media_Play_AIR+<\/strong>\u00a0files as shown in the screenshots. Most of the files are located in\u00a0<strong>c:\\Program Files \\Media_Play_AIR+_1.1<\/strong> or\u00a0<strong>c:\\Program Files (x86)\\Media_Play_AIR+_1.1<\/strong> on 64-bit Windows. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_player_air+-firefox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-847 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_player_air+-firefox.png\" alt=\"media_player_air+ in Firefox\" width=\"775\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_player_air+-firefox.png 775w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_player_air+-firefox-300x84.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+-bho.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-791\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+-bho.png\" alt=\"media_play_air+-bho\" width=\"785\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+-bho.png 785w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+-bho-300x101.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-790\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+.png\" alt=\"media_play_air+\" width=\"1070\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+.png 1070w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+-300x128.png 300w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/media_play_air+-1024x439.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1070px) 100vw, 1070px\" \/><\/a> <strong>Media_Play_AIR+<\/strong> is a variant of <a title=\"How To Remove MPlayerPlus_01\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-mplayerplus_01\/\">MPlayerPlus<\/a>. Since the removal procedure is the same I&#8217;ll link that removal video where you can see <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> in action removing the adware: <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ed2d3EyG9M\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> Hope you found this useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wanted to let you know about a new adware variant called\u00a0Media_Play_AIR+ that I found tonight. 8 of the 50 anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detects the Media_Play_AIR_1.1-bg.exe file, which you may see in the Windows Task Manager: Some of the anti-virus program calls Media_Play_AIR+\u00a0Artemis, CrossRider and AppRider. These are the variants I&#8217;ve found so far: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/media_play_air-removal-instructions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Media_Play_AIR+ &#8211; 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":[3,16],"tags":[66,116,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788"}],"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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":875,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}