GamesFlight Ads
Posted: December 13, 2015
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.
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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.
Ranking: | 7,049 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 1,572 |
First Seen: | December 13, 2015 |
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Last Seen: | October 16, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
GamesFlight is a typical adware extension, related to Gamesflight.com. This page is a platform for online games. It offers dozens of them to the visitors, allocated in various categories. No matter if you prefer action games, arcades, puzzles or strategy games, you may find something of your taste. The site itself is not threatening. As long as you play the games from your browser without downloading anything, you should encounter no issues whatsoever. However, if you decide to install any content on your PC, you also may load the ad-based extension. If you execute the setup process via the 'Advanced' menu, you may be able to keep the unwanted adware away. If GamesFlight sneaks in, it may cause an array of changes to all detected Web clients. This unreliable tool may be compatible with all of the leading browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It may modify various parts of the configuration, including your homepage and default search provider. GamesFlight also may create new commercial materials like pop-ups, banners, videos or eye-catching gifs. You may find these marketing elements all over the sites you open. The offers and discounts may become very annoying, especially if they overlay some essential page buttons. The performance of your Web clients also may suffer due to multimedia elements in some ads. Their loading may burden the CPU so that you may experience freezes or sudden speed drops. You shouldn’t click on its offers or to use the suggested search provider. Some of the affiliated pages may contain danger for your PC's stability or information. At no time should you agree to load suggested updates for Adobe or Java because they may be harmful. The GamesFlight extension may be very persistent, which is why the specialists advise you to delete GamesFlight with a renowned anti-malware application.
Technical Details
Registry Modifications
CLSID{16010245-453D-40E3-9244-75F6063B96BD}{9577EDED-C1C1-446F-BFBC-3C913BB0B18B}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{9577EDED-C1C1-446F-BFBC-3C913BB0B18B}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{9BA89AB9-A186-4E82-B7D5-C9176CF1F496}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{9577EDED-C1C1-446F-BFBC-3C913BB0B18B}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{9577EDED-C1C1-446F-BFBC-3C913BB0B18B}HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}GamesFlight
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