Fruit Pop Frenzy

from Appenity LLC

Remove Fruit Pop Frenzy by Appenity

What is Fruit Pop Frenzy?

Fruit Pop Frenzy uses the Install Connect Downloader to bundle additional software offers, mostly adware and PUPs.

About (from Appenity)

The Installer manages your download and software installation. In addition to the Game, the Installer may present to you various software offers by us or by one or more of our partners ("Partner Software") via an offer screen, which you can accept or decline. For the avoidance of doubt, you are in no way obligated or r... Read more

Overview

Fruit Pop Frenzy is a program developed by Appenity. A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). The main program executable is projektor.exe. The setup package is about 3.04 MB (3,183,022 bytes) when donwloaded. updater.exe is the automatic update component of the software designed to download and apply new updates should new versions be released. A majority of the PCs this is running on, most OS versions are Windows 10. The distribution of this has mostly been seen in the United States.

Possible malware installed by this program
Known to include offers within the setup

Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in Fruit Pop Frenzy.

updater.exe (2b34b5cbd43331705f41633038f9a56e) has been flagged by the following 3 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Version	Detection
AegisLab	1.5	Troj.W32.Gen
McAfee-GW-Edition	7.6940	BehavesLike.Win32.Tool.dh
Symantec	11/20/2014 rev. 5	WS.Reputation

Fruit Pop Frenzy has been seen bundling various 3rd party software during the installation process. Make sure to check for and remove unused programs.

Program details

Displayed publisher: InstallConnect

URL: installconnect.com

Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\local\fruit pop frenzy

Uninstaller: "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Fruit Pop Frenzy\projektor.exe" /uninstall

Estimated size: 3.04 MB

Files installed by Fruit Pop Frenzy

Program executable:	projektor.exe
Path:	C:\users\user\appdata\local\fruit pop frenzy\projektor.exe
MD5:	f9de218e110e3f1bd19e419a0f7117e8

Additional files:

(Malware detected) updater.exe

Behaviors exhibited

Scheduled Task

updater.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Fruit Pop Frenzy_update' (runs daily at 2:54 AM).

How do I remove Fruit Pop Frenzy?

You can uninstall Fruit Pop Frenzy 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 Fruit Pop Frenzy, 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 Fruit Pop Frenzy.
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.