Editing Windows Movie Maker (section)

== Counterfeit versions ==
The discontinuation of Windows Movie Maker has led to the appearance of scams abusing its name. In late 2016, a few months before the discontinuation of the Windows Essentials suite (including Movie Maker), a website named windows-movie-maker.org (no longer accessible) which offered a tampered version of Windows Movie Maker, appeared as one of the top results when searching for "Movie Maker" and "Windows Movie Maker" on [[Google]] and [[Bing (search engine)|Bing]], a scam only widely recognized as such in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1317178-windows-movie-maker-trial/|title=Windows Movie Maker - Trial???|website=NeoWin|access-date=2019-12-12}}</ref> It was identical to the real Windows Movie Maker, however, unlike the official and free Windows Movie Maker by Microsoft, it would not let users save a video without purchasing. Upon installing and executing the program, the user was greeted with a dialogue box explaining that it was a trial and a purchase was required. ESET also detected malware called Win32/Hoax.MovieMaker in the above-mentioned version. The fake will also restrict the installation of the WLE (Windows Live Essentials) Movie Maker by modifying the [[Windows registry]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.welivesecurity.com/2017/11/09/eset-detected-windows-movie-maker-scam-2017/|title=Windows Movie Maker Scam spreads massively due to high Google ranking|date=2017-11-09}}</ref>