GoPhoto.it Toolbar

Posted: January 16, 2014

Threat Metric

The Threat Meter is a malware assessment that SpywareRemove.com's research team is able to give every identifiable malware threat. Our Threat Meter includes several criteria based off of specific malware threats to value their severity, reach and volume. The Threat Meter is able to give you a numerical breakdown of each threat's initial Threat Level, Detection Count, Volume Count, Trend Path and Percentage Impact. The overall ranking of each threat in the Threat Meter is a basic breakdown of how all threats are ranked within our own extensive malware database. The scoring for each specific malware threat can be easily compared to other emerging threats to draw a contrast in its particular severity. The Threat Meter is a useful tool in the endeavor of seeking a solution to remove a threat or pursue additional analytical research for all types of computer users.

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:	6,607
Threat Level:	5/10
Infected PCs:	31,475

First Seen:	January 16, 2014
Last Seen:	October 13, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Gophoto.it may refer, with equal validity, to both a website that distributes a specific adware program and that adware, itself, which also is named Gophoto.it. A limited number of PC security companies have listed Gophoto.it as unsafe, but malware experts categorize Gophoto.it as a PUP, due to its use of online advertising and search settings changes while providing questionable photo-accessibility benefits to the user. Gophoto.it may not be a threat, but neither does Gophoto.it have any features that would benefit your PC, and malware researchers find it easy to suggest deleting Gophoto.it without any hesitation.

Going for Photos... and Getting into Trouble

The website Gophoto.it describes its flagship browser add-on as a utility for allowing you to auto-zoom on images contained in websites like Facebook. Because this feature, as implemented by Gophoto.it, may block your ability to interact with a website's content in the intended manner, the real benefits provided by this feature are extremely suspect. Even so, it's the other features that Gophoto.it doesn't mention as loudly as its photo zoom that malware researchers have become most attentive to examining.

These features include some of the traits of classical browser hijackers. Gophoto.it modifies your browser's default search settings to use Search.Gophoto.it by default. Although the results provided by this search engine aren't harmful, this search hijacking does prevent you from choosing your own search site for Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Gophoto.it also generates advertisements in your Web browser by injecting their content into Web pages as they're loaded. These advertisements may include text-injected links (or inline text advertisements), banners or other formats, such as pop-ups. Like its search results, Gophoto.it's advertisements are not necessarily meant to be unsafe to your PC, but malware analysts have noted that the invasive format they use is a small, albeit not insignificant security risk.

Getting Gone from the Gophoto.it Add-on

Gophoto.it's add-on may take a heavy hand to its strategy of 'improving' your browser with advertisements and search hijackings, but its marketed benefits in no way match up to the problems Gophoto.it causes. Even if Gophoto.it simply is classified as an unwanted program, rather than a threatening one, malware researchers find no compelling reason not to encourage uninstalling Gophoto.it as a habitual response to seeing Gophoto.it on your browser. Doing so effectively may require the use of anti-malware or anti-adware products that easily can eliminate any third-party changes to your browser, like those caused by Gophoto.it.

Gophoto.it may be installed from its website, but malware researchers have seen some early evidence indicating that Gophoto.it also may be using bundling techniques with free software to install itself. These bundles often are detectable by the same types of PC security products that could remove Gophoto.it, and also are found at their most prolific on non-specialized, free software websites.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.

The following files were created in the system:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\GoPhoto.it\gophotoit\1.3.9.2\trz5502.tmp

File name: trz5502.tmp
Size: 531.96 KB (531968 bytes)
MD5: d22004ffe80863fcf7f098b087b85956
Detection count: 3,293
File type: Temporary File
Mime Type: unknown/tmp
Path: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\GoPhoto.it\gophotoit\1.3.9.2\trz5502.tmp
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: December 13, 2020

%LOCALAPPDATA%\GoPhoto.it\gophotoit\1.3.9.0\gophotoit.exe

File name: gophotoit.exe
Size: 530.94 KB (530944 bytes)
MD5: 6f99a209dbb14e3289124badbc2f055b
Detection count: 9
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %LOCALAPPDATA%\GoPhoto.it\gophotoit\1.3.9.0
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 22, 2016

C:\Program Files\gophoto.it

File name: C:\Program Files\gophoto.it
Mime Type: unknown/it
Group: Malware file

C:\Program Files\GoPhoto.it\uninst.exe

File name: C:\Program Files\GoPhoto.it\uninst.exe
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

CLSID{0DE47778-66B8-41B2-86C2-F451AFF2A4AA}{1DCEDAB5-BEBD-414B-8DEC-9A096A7511D2}{1FC66B3B-4036-4383-BF18-5449A0C40790}{22C9E7CD-6489-4837-9E71-009D8DA42DB3}{3DCDBCE2-D763-4BE2-BA9D-566D92BC41BE}{4EB6BA31-D813-408B-9D39-957612F12C46}{553F7328-C3DC-482F-AA8B-C7BC74CC9CC9}{572E51CC-6813-4DE1-8E6D-61BC3FB7F610}{643E37C9-C1E9-47FC-BE44-DB04187D6C45}{68D143E1-9B19-4A8A-8B38-279CBF8E0787}{740D72BE-DB85-492F-B8EC-EB2BED3C2E3B}{76C29512-D3E3-4DFC-8955-CE0BCB9F81B2}{79A426F0-C5F3-41EF-9DEF-B28C21B4D183}{86027901-258C-47A8-942A-8555C05A361A}{9D5FF795-D3A3-4374-BA58-253D125E4550}{A433FB4B-64A8-4434-8247-DC291DF80149}{AEA69B70-3505-43E3-B942-FAF9F5F528DD}{AFFB4E10-4C15-48BD-803A-450162FE1CFC}{B22CFB03-D7C2-46AA-97F9-EC23D5A735D5}{BFE02A07-D626-4F8C-B0F2-6BB502FA2C8E}{ED817034-E3B7-4F43-8954-21F54F8A4479}HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\AppDataLow\Software\TheGoPhoto.it V10SOFTWARE\Classes\7cd785c0052c013240a20f6cdde3bdb00063313.BHOSOFTWARE\Classes\7cd785c0052c013240a20f6cdde3bdb00063313.BHO.1SOFTWARE\Classes\7cd785c0052c013240a20f6cdde3bdb00063313.SandboxSOFTWARE\Classes\7cd785c0052c013240a20f6cdde3bdb00063313.Sandbox.1SOFTWARE\Classes\esrv.gophotoitESrvcSOFTWARE\Classes\esrv.gophotoitESrvc.1Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\windows_ie_ac_001\Software\TheGoPhoto.it V10SOFTWARE\Cool Mirage Ltd\gophotoitSoftware\GoPhoto.itSoftware\gophotoit.comSoftware\InstalledBrowserExtensions\joep\63313Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{22C9E7CD-6489-4837-9E71-009D8DA42DB3}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{76C29512-D3E3-4DFC-8955-CE0BCB9F81B2}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{2170E99B-D858-4FBD-92C7-FAE5CCB12E3E}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{11111111-1111-1111-1111-110311401168}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{22C9E7CD-6489-4837-9E71-009D8DA42DB3}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{76C29512-D3E3-4DFC-8955-CE0BCB9F81B2}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{22C9E7CD-6489-4837-9E71-009D8DA42DB3}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Stats\{76C29512-D3E3-4DFC-8955-CE0BCB9F81B2}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\gophotoitSOFTWARE\TheGoPhoto.it V10SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Cool Mirage Ltd\gophotoitSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{2170E99B-D858-4FBD-92C7-FAE5CCB12E3E}Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{11111111-1111-1111-1111-110311401168}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{76C29512-D3E3-4DFC-8955-CE0BCB9F81B2}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\gophotoitSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\TheGoPhoto.it V10

Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%APPDATA%\Cool Mirage Ltd\gophotoit%LOCALAPPDATA%\GoPhoto.it%PROGRAMFILES%\Cool Mirage Ltd\gophotoit%PROGRAMFILES%\GoPhoto.it V9.0%PROGRAMFILES%\Gophoto.it%PROGRAMFILES%\TheGoPhoto.it V10%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Cool Mirage Ltd\gophotoit%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\GoPhoto.it V9.0%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Gophoto.it%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\TheGoPhoto.it V10%USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Cool Mirage Ltd\gophotoit