Should I remove Pixel Wireless?

What percent of users and experts removed it?

82% remove it18% keep it

Overall Sentiment

Bad

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How common is it?

Reach 0.0001%

Versions

Version	Distribution
1.0.0.0	100.00%

Pixel Wireless

Remove Pixel Wireless

What is Pixel Wireless?

This is an ad Injector type of malware that is typically bundled with unwanted software offers for legitimate software and once installed is deceptive, difficult to remove as well as impacts the security of the user's computer by displaying intrusive advertisements in the web browser which promote and trick users into installing other unwanted adware or malware. Once installed, it runs as a startup process in the background works by injecting into the browser ads on web pages that either do not normally appear or by replacing existing ads that are part of the existing site with ads from different companies with low quality offerings as well as malware. It works by monitoring and intercepting the user's web browser connections and injecting new content before the browser serve it up. (This is a variant of the CMI/WinCheck family of adware.)

Overview

Upon installation and setup, it defines an auto-start registry entry which makes this program run on each Windows boot for all user logins. The main program executable is bnshd1d2.exe. Typically most users end up uninstalling this just after a few days.

Possible malware installed by this program
Starts automatically
Displays unwanted advertisements
The experts agree, you should remove it!

Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in Pixel Wireless.

bnshd1d2.exe (cb06c87bae7a8c10ed0f4dc3060b9968) has been flagged by the following 17 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Version	Detection
Lavasoft Ad-Aware	537	Application.Generic.1243926
Agnitum Outpost	7.1.1	PUA.ConvertAd
AVG	2016.0.3015	Generic6
AVware	1.5.0.21	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Baidu-International	4.0.3.15816	Adware.Win32.ConvertAd.ET
Bitdefender	1.0.20.1140	Application.Generic.1243926
Comodo Security	22023	ApplicUnwnt
ESET-NOD32	9.11584	Win32/Adware.ConvertAd.ET
Fortinet FortiGate	8/16/2015	Riskware/ConvertAd
F-Secure	11.2015-16-08_1	Application.Generic.1243926
G Data	15.8.25	Application.Generic.1243926
McAfee	5600.6671	Artemis!CB06C87BAE7A
MicroWorld-eScan	16.0.0.684	Application.Generic.1243926
Sophos	4.98	Generic PUA LM
Symantec	8/16/2015 rev. 1	WS.Reputation
Tencent	1.0.0.1	Trojan.Win32.Qudamah.Gen.5
VIPRE Antivirus	39987	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT

View all 17 all detections

Program details

Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\local\1e007940-1428404616-1a01-2b3a-001fc6210f81

Uninstaller: "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\1E007940-1428404616-1A01-2B3A-001FC6210F81\uninstall.exe"

Files installed by Pixel Wireless

Program executable:	bnshd1d2.exe (Malware detected)
Path:	C:\users\user\appdata\local\1e007940-1428404616-1a01-2b3a-001fc6210f81\bnshd1d2.exe
MD5:	cb06c87bae7a8c10ed0f4dc3060b9968

Additional files:

Uninstall.exe

Behaviors exhibited

Startup File (All Users Run)

bnshD1D2.exe is loaded in the all users (HKLM) registry as a startup file name 'WinCheck' which loads as C:\users\user\appdata\Local\1E007940-1428404616-1A01-2B3A-001FC6210F81\bnshD1D2.exe.

How do I remove Pixel Wireless?

You can uninstall Pixel Wireless from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.

On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:

Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.

When you find the program Pixel Wireless, click it, and then do one of the following:

Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).

Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Pixel Wireless.
If for some reason uninstallation fails, please install Microsoft's uninstall fixer utility which will help fix problems with programs that can't be uninstalled at support.microsoft.com.