GamesZing Ads
Posted: June 17, 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.
Threat Level: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 35 |
First Seen: | June 23, 2016 |
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Last Seen: | January 9, 2019 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
GamesZing is a suspicious ad-oriented extension that may not assist you in any way. GamesZing creates vast amounts of pop-ups, banners, in-text ads and other commercial materials. You may encounter these marketing elements on almost every site you open. Even pages that are normally ad-free may start showing coupons, vouchers or limited-time offers. There are various ways for GamesZing to reach your PC. GamesZing may attach towards your browsers if you download content from Gameszing.com. This page offers online games distributed into various categories. Some of them may launch into your browsers directly, but others may ask you to install them on your computer. The former are safe to play, but the latter comes together with the adware extension. If you are unfamiliar with Gameszing.com but you still noticing ads by GamesZing, then the application might have been introduced by other software. The name of this method is bundling. This tactic is efficient for those users who don't read the license agreement. A single permission will load all components of the bundle unless you deselect the unwanted ones manually. To do it, you should use the 'Advanced' installation menu instead of the 'Quick' one. GamesZing may be compatible with most of the leading browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. When the extension attaches to the Web clients, it may change the homepage with an affiliate site or some suspicious search provider. The adware also may include various sponsored links in legit search engines like Google and Bing. You may not appreciate the modifications that are about to happen automatically. The mentioned commercial materials may become annoying in no time. Some of them may contain blinking or vivid elements that may cause distraction. Some multimedia ads may increase the time necessary to load the corresponding website. The most serious issue is that GamesZing may sometimes transfer you to unsafe pages. This adware is rather persistent, which is the reason the experts encourage you to delete GamesZing with suitable security software.
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