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Yes, 98% block recommendation.
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solid savings-bg.exe
Solid Savings by Innovative Apps (Signed)
| Version: | 1000.1000.1000.1000 |
| MD5: | 2c92c9e91ce225cbd3a8619a8061f738 |
| SHA1: | 8a1703ff82eeee443b068100776ca30160a91e4d |
| SHA256: | a4fde2cfc5ffb6edf94e9e84f1e946fb6d8b36c4c51558813b9665682705a8b7 |
Warning 3 antivirus scanners has detected malware.
Overview
solid savings-bg.exe is malware that executes as a process with the local user's privileges. This is typically installed with the program Solid Savings published by 215 Apps and is most likely removed by most users once installed (79% removed). The file is digitally signed by Innovative Apps which was issued by the Thawte certificate authority (CA). This particular version is usually found on Windows 8 (6.2.9200.0).
Details
| File name: | solid savings-bg.exe |
| Publisher: | Innovative Apps |
| Product name: | Solid Savings |
| Description: | Solid Savings exe |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\solid savings\solid savings-bg.exe |
| Original name: | Solid Savings.exe |
| File version: | 1000.1000.1000.1000 |
| Size: | 863.88 KB (884,616 bytes) |
| Build date: | 4/25/2013 4:22 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Innovative Apps |
| Authority (CA): | Thawte |
| Effective date: | Tuesday, January 8, 2013 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, January 9, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
Innovative Apps' Solid Savings is a web browser plugin that displays coupon deals and other advertisements when users visit various online shopping sites. When a user visits an online shopping site and the program has a pre-arranged affiliate relationship with a similar merchant it will alert the user that other deals or prices exist, or in many cases just shows adverts. It injects ads and affiliate codes in product links directly by mo...
Network connections
[TCP] a184-84-244-187.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (184.84.244.187:80)
Malware detections
Based on 40+ industry antivirus scanners, 3 of them detected the following malware.
| Antivirus engine | Engine version | Detection |
| avast! |
8.0.1489.320 |
Win32:Installer-M [Adw] |
| Dr.Web |
8.13.9.30 |
Adware.Plugin.73 |
| VIPRE Antivirus |
19510 |
GamePlayLabs (v) |
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.02850085% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.02031577% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00818507% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 23,250 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 9.13 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 23.99 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 23.78 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 9.13 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 181.56 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 187.97 MB | |
| Working set: | 23.96 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 24.19 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 11 | |
| Handles: | 306 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 13 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 14 | |
| GUI USER count: | 24 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 33 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Low |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\solid savings\solid savings-bg.exe" /createbg |
| Owner: | User |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 8 |
100.00% |
|
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Acer |
100.00% |
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