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Joygame Homepage

Posted: December 14, 2015

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 5/10
Infected PCs: 593
First Seen: December 14, 2015
Last Seen: April 8, 2022
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Joygame is a reliable Turkish website that allows its visitors to access and play a broad range of online games. The games hosted there are divided into several categories, and all of them are free to play without any complications. However, the Joygame website is associated with the Joygame Homepage, a dubious Web browser extension for Google Chrome. This Web browser extension is officially published by Joygame, and its primary purpose is to allow users to access the Joygame website and the games hosted there quickly. However, to do this, the Joygame Homepage extension may change the Chrome's default homepage and search engine service provider to Search.joygame.com. This search engine is directly associated with Joygame.com, and although it is reliable, most users may not appreciate the fact that it replaced their favorite search engine and homepage.

The Joygame Homepage browser extension may be installed without the user's knowledge via unfair techniques, so users may experience this unwanted change even if they don't recall agreeing to it. Using the Search.joygame.com website will not lead to any bad consequences, but there's no valid reason for you to use Search.joygame.com considering the way it was introduced to you. Unfortunately, the removal of the Joygame Homepage extension may not be enough to revert the changes it made to your Web browser's configuration. We advise users who are troubled by this browser hijacker to run a reputable anti-malware scanner and erase all files and registry entries associated with Joygame Homepage. Afterward, they should restore their favorite homepage and search engine as default pages for Google Chrome manually.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathsearch.joygame[1].xmlHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\DOMStorage\search.joygame.com
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