Should I remove Television Streamer?

What percent of users and experts removed it?

82% remove it18% keep it

Overall Sentiment

Bad

What do people think about it?

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How common is it?

Reach <0.001%

Versions

Version	Distribution
1.0.0.0	100.00%

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Television Streamer

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What is Television Streamer?

Television Streamer is a potentially unwanted application that runs in the web browser as a toolbar and web extension. The web extension is primarily designed to take control of the user's browser in order to modify the search provider and redirect web searches to what ever search engine partner the publisher has a revenue relationship with. In doing so, the toolbar performs a number of behaviors in order to maximize the potential of a user to click on sponsored advertising through search. This includes but not limited to:

- Changing the web browser's default home page to the affiliate search portal.
- Changing the browser's search provider, built-in search box as well as the address bar.
- Ability to modify the 'new tab' functionality to launch the modified search portal page.
- Provide automatic updates of the toolbar without the user's initiation.
- Adds an alternative error page and page not found functionality.
- Adds additional functionality that is designed to protect the search and home page settings.
- Access the HTML of all pages visited as well as capture URLs of the pages and search terms.
- In many cases can inject advertising in the form of context ads, pop-ups and pop-unders.

Overview

The program adds a toolbar to Microsoft Internet Explorer. The software is designed to connect to the Internet and adds a Windows Firewall exception in order to do so without being interfered with. The primary executable is named mediastreamer.dll. A majority of users end up uninstalling this less than a week of it being installed. The setup package generally installs about 4 files.

Integrates into the web browser
Typically distributed through a pay-per-install bundle
Hijacks the web browser's home page
Hijacks the browser's default search provider
The experts agree, you should remove it!

Television Streamer has been found to be bundled with 3rd party software. If you have not purposefully installed this, you should be safe uninstalling it.

Program details

Installation folder: C:\Program Files\mediastreamer

Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\mediastreamer\uninstall.exe

Files installed by Television Streamer

Program module:	mediastreamer.dll
Name:	DTX Toolbar
	DTX kernel Module
Path:	C:\Program Files\mediastreamer\mediastreamer.dll
MD5:	e0ad79a3475008d370ea8d38892fb037

Additional files:

uninstall.exe - Television Streamer (Television Streamer Installer)
dtuser.exe - DtUser
mediastreamerX.dll - dtx Dynamic Link Library

Behaviors exhibited

Internet Explorer BHO

mediastreamerX.dll is installed in Internet Explorer as a BHO (Browser Helper Object) under the name 'Television Streamer' with the class of {c9766d1d-8ff7-434b-a1d1-29f5609ced4a}.

Internet Explorer Toolbar

mediastreamerX.dll is loaded as Internet Explorer Toolbar with the name 'Television Streamer' with the class of {c9766d1d-8ff7-434b-a1d1-29f5609ced4a}.

Windows Firewall Allowed Program

dtuser.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\xfin_portal\dtuser.exe'.

How do I remove Television Streamer?

You can uninstall Television Streamer 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 Television Streamer, 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 Television Streamer.
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.