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GameHug Arcade

Posted: March 6, 2015

Threat Metric

Ranking: 12,416
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 1,305
First Seen: March 6, 2015
Last Seen: October 9, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

GameHug Arcade is an adware threat that may be designed by its creators to advertise online gaming or gaming applications for your computer. Through use of the GameHug Arcade ads you may be redirected to other sites that attempt to offer gaming add-ons or related gaming components that may ask that you pay for the services for playing such games on the internet. The GameHug Arcade ads may be intrusive and interrupt your ability to surf the internet through its aggressive pop-ups or banner ads. Stopping the GameHug Arcade ads from loading or causing redirects may be left in the hands of an antispyware application designed to detect and eliminate adware automatically from a Windows PC.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathGameHug Arcade.lnkGameHugArcadeApp.lnkHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\GameHugArcadeAppSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BEHAVIORS\GameHugArcade.exeSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION\GameHugArcade.exeSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION\GameHugArcadeApp.exeSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\GameHug Arcade

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%APPDATA%\GameHugArcade%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\GameHug Arcade%LOCALAPPDATA%\GameHugArcade
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