Dream Media Player

26 August 2009 Rogue 0 Comment

Dream Media Player is a fake multimedia program that will pretend as a needed player to run certain video from malicious web sites. This practice is very common to the operation of Trojan that tries to engage user in its activities. Malware authors often uses video web page to trick visitors into download what they think is a useful program. In reality, Dream Media Player add-on may cause a harmful Trojan to infect the computer.

Trojan infection based on this attack pose a serious security threat. The Trojan may communicate with a remote computer to download more malware that brings-in presence of pop-up advertisements. Additionally, fake programs that are involved in moneymaking scheme may also be part of the infected system.

Message that appears on harmful web sites that requires user to download video player contains this message:

“Video Player note: No video player found! You need to install last version of Dream Media Player to watch HQ videos.”

Damage Level: Low

Systems Affected: Windows

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1. Temporarily Disable System Restore (Windows Me/XP). [how to]
2. Open your antivirus application and update the virus definition file. This method ensures that your antivirus program can detect even newer variants of Dream Media Player

3. Start Windows in Safe Mode with Networking.
- From a power-off state, turn on the computer and press F8 on your keyboard repeatedly.
- Your computer will display Windows Advanced Boot Options menu. Please select Safe Mode with Networking.
- The system will now boot Windows and loads only necessary drivers and files.

4. Open your antivirus program and run a full system scan. After the scan, delete all infected items. If unable, better place them in quarantine. Once the scan is complete, please proceed with the next step.

Online Virus Scanner:

Another way to remove Dream Media Player without the need to install additional antivirus application is to perform a thorough scan with free online virus scanner that can be found here or on websites of legitimate anti-virus and security provider.

5. Go to Online Virus Scanner list and run a virus scan. This may require plug-ins, add-on or Activex object, please install if you want to proceed with scan.
6. After completing the necessary download, your system is now ready for online virus scanning.
7. Select an option in which you can thoroughly scan the computer to make sure that it will find and delete entirely all infections not detected on previous scan.
8. Remove or delete all detected items.
9. When scanning is finished you may now restart the computer in normal mode.

Automatic Removal of Dream Media Player

In order to completely remove the threat, click here to download and run Malwarebytes Anti-Malware. Sometimes, Trojans will block the downloading and installation of MBAM. If this happens, download it from a clean computer and rename the executable file before executing on the infected machine.