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GoGameGo

Posted: March 18, 2016

Threat Metric

Ranking: 3,027
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 62,843
First Seen: March 18, 2016
Last Seen: October 16, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows


GoGameGo by APN, LLC is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that may affect your Web clients in a negative way. This questionable application may enter if you load some freeware bundle. The creator of GoGameGo describes it as a helpful application, devoted to the fans of online games. In theory, GoGameGo should give you fast access to the most popular online games. GoGameGo may create a toolbar in all of the present browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. GoGameGo contains a few buttons that lead to platforms for online games. However, this function has a rather high price. GoGameGo may apply different changes to the configuration of your Web clients to make you visit partner pages. Whenever GoGameGo redirects a user towards an affiliated site, its developers will receive referral commissions. One of the changes that you may encounter soon after the installation of GoGameGo may concern your homepage. GoGameGo may switch the default one to Search.mysearch.com. You shouldn't trust this engine because GoGameGo may not show you accurate results. Instead, you may see too many sponsored links, which is a hidden form of advertising. GoGameGo also may be the reason you notice abnormally high amounts of pop-ups, banners, interstitial ads or in-text ads. GoGameGo may place them in various Web pages, even those that are normally free of commercial materials. As the time passes, you may experience a deterioration in the performance of your Web clients. The list of possible issues may include speed drops, freezes or even crashes. They may happen due to the loading of multimedia ads, which are known to be resource-consuming. The experts don't encourage you to click in the ads by GoGameGo because some of them may transfer you to potentially harmful pages. The recommendation is to use dedicated security software to delete GoGameGo.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathhttp_gogamego1.dl.mysearch.com_0.localstoragehttp_gogamego1.dl.mysearch.com_0.localstorage-journalHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{E221409B-9C28-46F2-886E-9E6156933CAC}

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\bfcapcappajoppmnagjcpnbdmphlbgme
The following URL's were detected:
gogamego.thewhizproducts.comname": "GoGameGo",
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