{"id":7960,"date":"2015-11-03T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=7960"},"modified":"2018-05-29T11:55:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:55:41","slug":"media-story-new-media-holdings-ltd-11-detection-rate-installcore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/media-story-new-media-holdings-ltd-11-detection-rate-installcore\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Story (New Media Holdings Ltd) – 11% Detection Rate – InstallCore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello! Just a note on a publisher called Media Story (New Media Holdings Ltd)<\/strong>. The Media Story (New Media Holdings Ltd) download – chrome-download.exe – was detected when I uploaded it to VirusTotal<\/a>. Did you also find a download by Media Story (New Media Holdings Ltd)? Was it also detected when you uploaded it to VirusTotal<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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By looking at the certificate we can see that Media Story (New Media Holdings Ltd) appears to be located in Tel Aviv in Israel.<\/p>\n

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What caught my attention was that the download was called chrome-download.exe. This might look like an official Google Chrome<\/strong> download, but it is not. If it was an official download, it would be digitally signed by Google Inc.<\/strong>. Here’s how the authentic Google Chrome<\/strong> looks like when you double click on it. Notice that the “Verified publisher” says “Google Inc”.
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The scan result from VirusTotal<\/a> below clearly shows why you should avoid the Media Story (New Media Holdings Ltd) file. It is detected under names such as Adware ( 004cf5d71 ), Adware ( 004cf5d71 ), PUP.Optional.InstallCore and Install Core Click run software (PUA).<\/p>\n

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Since you probably came here after finding a download that was signed by Media Story (New Media Holdings Ltd), please share what kind of download it was and if it was detected by the anti-virus progams at VirusTotal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello! Just a note on a publisher called Media Story (New Media Holdings Ltd). The Media Story (New Media Holdings Ltd) download – chrome-download.exe – was detected when I uploaded it to VirusTotal. Did you also find a download by Media Story (New Media Holdings Ltd)? Was it also detected when you uploaded it to … Continue reading Media Story (New Media Holdings Ltd) – 11% Detection Rate – InstallCore<\/span> →<\/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":[850,251],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960"}],"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=7960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7964,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7960\/revisions\/7964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}