Games Bot
Posted: March 16, 2015
Threat Metric
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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.
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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.
Threat Level: | 1/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 522 |
First Seen: | March 16, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | January 19, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Games Bot is a typical Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP), developed by Games Bot Team. It tries to attract the attention of the user with a seemingly useful feature but then proceeds to perform unpleasant actions in the background. Games Bot offers the free download of Shockwave games. It is only after the installation, however, when the people notice that their computer speed is significantly decreased. The reason for this is because the main executable file of Gamer Bot, gbRunner.exe, constantly starts Google Chrome and access certain sites without the knowledge of the user. Some of these domains may be malicious and keeping Games Bot may harm the infected computer. What is more, the PUP modifies the Windows Task Scheduler in order to start itself automatically. Games Bot comes bundled with another program and relies on the fact that many people don't read the End-user license agreement. Experts advise against keeping this application because it may have negative results for the whole system.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Games BotSoftware\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\GamesbotSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Games BotSYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\EventLog\Application\GamesBotServiceSYSTEM\ControlSet001\Services\GamesBotServiceSYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\EventLog\Application\GamesBotServiceSYSTEM\ControlSet002\Services\GamesBotServiceSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Application\GamesBotServiceSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\GamesBotService
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