Did you just find a download or a file on your computer that has been digitally signed by Lake Ventures LLC? Some of the security products refers to the detected files as Adware.iBryte.491 and a variant of MSIL/Adware.iBryte.H. The detection rate for the Lake Ventures LLC files collected here is 5%. Please read on for more details.
You will probably notice Lake Ventures LLC when double-clicking to run the file. The publisher name shows up as the "Verified publisher" in the UAC dialog as the screenshot shows:
You can view the digital signature details for Lake Ventures LLC with the following steps:
Here's a screenshot of a file that has been digitally signed by Lake Ventures LLC:
As you can see in the screenshot above, Windows reports that "This digital signature is OK". This means that the file has been published by Lake Ventures LLC and that the file has not been tampered with.
If you click the View Certificate button shown in the screenshot above, you can examine all the details of the certificate, such as when it was issued, who issued the certificate, how long it is valid, etc. You can also see the address for Lake Ventures LLC, such as the street name, city and country.
Go Daddy Secure Certification Authority has issued the Lake Ventures LLC certificates. You can also view the details of the issuer by clicking the View Certificate button shown in the screenshot above.
The following are the Lake Ventures LLC files I have collected, thanks to the FreeFixer users.
Detection Ratio | File Name |
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3/55 | ContentExplorer.exe |
11/56 | ContentExplorer.exe |
10/56 | ContentExplorer.exe |
0/50 | ContentExplorer.exe |
0/50 | LVMaintenance.exe |
0/51 | ContentExplorer.exe |
0/52 | ContentExplorer.exe |
0/54 | ContentExplorer.exe |
0/53 | ContentExplorer.exe |
0/54 | ContentExplorer.exe |
Here's the detection names for the Lake Ventures LLC files. I have grouped the detection names by each scanner engine. Thanks to VirusTotal for the scan results.
Scanner | Detection Names |
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Avast | Win32:IBryte-IE [PUP] |
Avira | ADWARE/Adware.Gen7 |
Baidu-International | Adware.MSIL.iBryte.bH, Adware.MSIL.iBryte.BH |
Comodo | ApplicUnwnt |
DrWeb | Adware.iBryte.491 |
ESET-NOD32 | a variant of MSIL/Adware.iBryte.H |
F-Prot | W32/S-10167c8d!Eldorado |
Ikarus | AdWare.ContentExplorer, PUA.Agent |
K7GW | Trojan ( 700001171 ) |
NANO-Antivirus | Riskware.Win32.BPlug.djpkri |
Symantec | Adware.ContentExplorer |
The detection percentage is based on the fact that I've collected 531 scan reports for the Lake Ventures LLC files. 24 of these scan results came up with some sort of detection. You can review the full details of the scan reports by examining the files listed above.
The analysis is done on certificates with the following serial numbers: