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Jungle Arcade

Posted: June 22, 2017

Threat Metric

Ranking: 7,757
Threat Level: 1/10
Infected PCs: 454
First Seen: June 22, 2017
Last Seen: October 14, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

The Jungle Arcade is an online gaming platform, which offers users the ability to choose from thousands of online Flash games that can be played from their Web browser directly. Everything about the Jungle Arcade's website appears to be okay, and it does not contain any suspicious content that may take users to external websites, which are not safe. In addition to this, all games that the Jungle Arcade offers appear to work as expected so that there isn't anything shady going on there either. However, there appears to be a browser extension linked to the website, which also goes by the name 'Jungle Arcade' and its presence on your computer may sometimes by accompanied by unwanted side effects.

The Jungle Arcade is detected as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) by anti-virus applications and users who have had to deal with this extension report that its installation changed their default new tab page to a 3rd-party website. In addition to this, it is possible that the Jungle Arcade also might inject ads in active Web browser windows, but this information is yet to be confirmed. Regardless of the side effects, what matters the most is that having the Jungle Arcade installed does not provide you with any useful features. The extension is not required to access the content hosted on the Jungle Arcade's website so that you can keep on playing their games without installing 3rd-party software on your computer.

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