What is MediaWatchV1home420.dll?

MediaWatchV1home420.dll is part of Media Watch home 420 according to the MediaWatchV1home420.dll version information.

MediaWatchV1home420.dll's description is "Media Watch"

MediaWatchV1home420.dll is usually located in the 'C:\Program Files (x86)\MediaWatchV1\MediaWatchV1home420\ie\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected MediaWatchV1home420.dll.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on MediaWatchV1home420.dll:

PropertyValue
Product nameMedia Watch home 420
File descriptionMedia Watch
Internal nameMediaWatchV1home420.dll
Original filenameMediaWatchV1home420.dll
Legal copyright(c) 2012-2014. All rights reserved.
Product version1.0.0.1
File version1.0.0.1

Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:

Product nameMedia Watch home 420
File descriptionMedia Watch
Internal nameMediaWatchV1home420.dll
Original filenameMediaWatchV1home420.dll
Legal copyright(c) 2012-2014. All rights reserved.
Product version1.0.0.1
File version1.0.0.1

Digital signatures [?]

MediaWatchV1home420.dll is not signed.

VirusTotal report

40 of the 54 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the MediaWatchV1home420.dll file. That's a 74% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.42273
Agnitum PUA.BetterSurf!
AntiVir ADWARE/Adware.Gen
Antiy-AVL GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus]/Win32.BetterSurf
Avast Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
AVG Skodna.Generic_r.HW
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.BetterSurf.ak
BitDefender Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.42273
CAT-QuickHeal Adware.BetterSurf.B5
Comodo Application.Win32.AdWare.BetterSurf.C
DrWeb Adware.BetterSurf.2
Emsisoft Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.42273 (B)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/AdWare.BetterSurf.C
F-Secure Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.42273
Fortinet Adware/BetterSurf
GData Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.42273
Ikarus AdWare.BetterSurf
Jiangmin AdWare/BetterSurf.b
K7AntiVirus Unwanted-Program ( 0040f7f51 )
K7GW Trojan ( 050000001 )
Kaspersky not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.BetterSurf.b
Kingsoft Win32.Troj.BetterSurf.b.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.MediaWatch.A
McAfee Adware-BetterSurf
McAfee-GW-Edition Heuristic.BehavesLike.Win32.Suspicious.H
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Adware.Symmi.42273
NANO-Antivirus Riskware.Win32.BetterSurf.cvrrct
nProtect Trojan-Clicker/W32.BetterSurf.87040.B
Panda Generic Malware
Qihoo-360 HEUR/Malware.QVM30.Gen
Rising PE:Malware.BetterSurf!6.11BF
Sophos BetterSurf
SUPERAntiSpyware Trojan.Agent/Gen-Kelihos
Symantec WS.Reputation.1
Tencent Win32.Risk.Adware.Egxx
TrendMicro TROJ_GEN.R08NC0PD214
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R08NC0PD214
VBA32 AdWare.BetterSurf
VIPRE Adware.Win32.BetterSurf.a (v)
Zillya Adware.BetterSurf.Win32.3293
40 of the 54 anti-virus programs detected the MediaWatchV1home420.dll file.

MediaWatchV1home420.dll removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove MediaWatchV1home420.dll with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the MediaWatchV1home420.dll file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that MediaWatchV1home420.dll has been successfully removed. Here are the removal instructions in more detail:

  1. Download and install FreeFixer: http://www.freefixer.com/download.html
  2. Start FreeFixer and press the Start Scan button. The scan will finish in approximately five minutes.
    Screenshot of Start Scan button
  3. When the scan is finished, locate MediaWatchV1home420.dll in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the MediaWatchV1home420.dll file. Do not check any other file for removal unless you are 100% sure you want to delete it. Tip: Press CTRL-F to open up FreeFixer's search dialog to quickly locate MediaWatchV1home420.dll in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    C:\Program Files (x86)\MediaWa..1\MediaWatchV1home420\ie\MediaWatchV1home420.dll
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the MediaWatchV1home420.dll file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If MediaWatchV1home420.dll still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If MediaWatchV1home420.dll is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If MediaWatchV1home420.dll still remains in the scan result, check its checkbox again in the scan result and click Fix.
  8. Restart your computer.
  9. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. Verify that MediaWatchV1home420.dll no longer appear in the scan result.
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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5fbc57b90a397b1a3d77f9b01ae941380
SHA2567d46cf56a2a3b0d80615ef646262bc5f9dbcbd422d039cff560562d8aa2c9a4a

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