BR Media Player

By GoldSparrow in Potentially Unwanted Programs

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 14,565
Threat Level: 10 % (Normal)
Infected Computers: 160
First Seen: July 6, 2015
Last Seen: June 21, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

BR Media Player is a dubious media player that may introduce a number of unwanted system modifications. The video player is advertised as a useful application that can help users play all types of video files, as well as to watch online videos. However, BR Media Player may often be promoted by shady websites, and our security analysis that BR Media Player has several hidden features that may disturb the average PC user.

The BR Media Player is ad-supported, so once you install it on your computer it may start to inject advertisements and banners in the web browsers you use. Apart from doing that, the BR Media Player is known to display misleading advertisements and messages that may be part of an online tech support scam. Several users who installed the BR Media Player report that it may be responsible for a fake Blue Screen of Death they saw. The bogus BSOD promoted a phone number that belongs to a well-known online tech support scam. So while BR Media Player may seem good, at first sight, we advise you to stay away from this product! There are way too many strange things around it, and the opinion of our researchers is that there are many better media player alternatives that won't display ads and bogus system messages.

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Registry Details

BR Media Player may create the following registry entry or registry entries:
SOFTWARE\Br MediaPlayer
Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Br Media Player
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Br MediaPlayer

Directories

BR Media Player may create the following directory or directories:

%PROGRAMFILES%\Br Media Player
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Br Media Player

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