While there are several expensive and upscale video production apps like Adobe Premiere, Windows Movie Maker is free, accessible, and well-known. Windows Movie Maker helps us produce videos and engage with us. YouTube is called 'social' media because it helps us engage with each other and the world around us. As the video-building app evolved, so did our society, to the point that we have come to rely heavily on online streaming. Since 2000, Windows has offered an easy-to-use, moderately powerful movie making tool that - along with YouTube and many other factors - would see the proliferation of hilarious, tragic, heartwarming, hilarious, and informative online videos. We recommend that Microsoft keep Movie Maker available! Visit this Microsoft Forum and tell them you don't want them to kill off Movie Maker: Information on software pricing should be available online.Microsoft plans to discontinue Windows Movie Maker next week and make it impossible to download on January 10, 2017. Don’t pay for software that is or was officially offered for free.Consider using the official replacement for the discontinued software – in this case, Windows Story Remix.Use a reliable security solution to detect and block malicious content.If you really need to use a piece of software that’s no longer distributed by its original maker, make sure you:

To avoid falling victim to similar scams, always stick to official sources when downloading software.

If you’ve already installed the Movie Maker offered on, uninstall it and run a scan using a reputable antimalware solution. We have notified both Google and Microsoft about the fraudulent nature of the high-ranking website (which was registered back in 2010).įigure 5 – Payment website used by the scammers How to stay safe from Windows Movie Maker Scam On Bing, the search engine with the second largest global market share, the website is also placed on the first page of results.ĮSET security products detect the scam as Win32/Hoax.MovieMaker and block the website distributing it. The spread of the scam (which itself is far from new) has been boosted by search engine optimization of the crooks’ website, as well as continuing demand for Windows Movie Maker, Microsoft’s free video editing software, discontinued since January 2017.Īt the time of writing, the website spreading the modified software, ‘’, comes up as one of the top results when searching for “Movie Maker” and “Windows Movie Maker” on Google (using this browser, it ranks as number one in the majority of countries with the highest number of internet users). Scammers have been surprisingly successful at distributing a modified version of Windows Movie Maker that aims to collect money from unaware users. ESET detected a modified version of Windows Movie Maker that aims to collect money from unaware users.

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