GamesBlox
Posted: April 25, 2016
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Ranking: | 17,286 |
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Threat Level: | 8/10 |
Infected PCs: | 8,064 |
First Seen: | April 25, 2016 |
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Last Seen: | August 9, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
GamesBlox is an adware extension that may get access to your PC if you download any content from Gamesblox.com. This page is a platform for online games. It offers dozens of them, distributed into various categories. No matter if you are enthusiastic about the Arcade, Strategy or adventure genres, you still may find some game that is interesting to you. There are two kinds of games. The first kind launches directly into your browser and requires no download. Others, however, have a desktop version solely. If you agree to install the latter, GamesBlox also may sneak in. GamesBlox also may travel in software bundles, so it may reach you even if you download freeware not associated with Gamesblox.com in any way. The developers of this platform assure that they use commercial materials to cover some of the expenses that are required for the hosting of the site. Even if this is the case, you should rethink if keeping the adware is worth it. GamesBlox may cause various issues with your Web client, no matter if you prefer Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. The first problem is that GamesBlox may changes a lot of settings automatically. GamesBlox may replace the homepage and default search provider with untrustworthy alternatives. As you go to your favorite sites, you may detect many more commercial materials than usual. GamesBlox may generate a lot of new ads that may come in various shapes, including pop-ups, pop-unders, banners, transitional ads and hyperlinked words. You may encounter them regularly, which may become a very irritating process. The annoyance is not the only issue that these marketing elements may create. They also may interfere with the performance of your browsers. You may experience different errors like increased loading speed, freezes and crashes. Some of the ads also may be corrupt, and open harmful pages. The specialists suggest you use an advanced security utility to eliminate GamesBlox.
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