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Royal Raid Ads

Posted: November 25, 2015

Threat Metric

Ranking: 17,246
Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 354
First Seen: November 25, 2015
Last Seen: July 27, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Royal Raid is a suspicious extension that may appear in your Web browser automatically. The name of this add-on has nothing to do with its functionality. The purpose of this questionable software, whose developer remains unknown, is to boost the incoming traffic to sponsored third-party webpages. The term for add-ons that perform in this manner is 'adware'. The reason you may agree to load it without knowing is that Royal Raid may rely on other free programs to enter. It is hard to find a site that hosts it, but if you load freeware, it may bring Royal Raid as a recommended additional component that should optimize your online shopping. The good news is that it is relatively easy to keep such unwanted tools away from your PC. You should read the details that the 'Advanced' menu displays, and uncheck unwanted parts of the installer manually.

In order to promote its partners, Royal Raid may generate various pop-ups, banners, in-text ads and videos. You also may encounter interstitial ads that appear as page-wide commercial windows above the sites you want to view. The existence of large quantities of unwanted ads in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer may be quite annoying. If they indeed improve the Internet shopping of the client, they could be regarded as helpful. However, the commercial materials may not be of any utility to you because they may lead to unknown e-commerce sites. Since their legitimacy is not guaranteed, it may not be safe to trust them with your money. Some users report that they are unable to delete Royal Raid manually, which means you should use advanced security software for the task.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{e845bcbb-d323-4aec-a8b8-b0f9cd1abbe5}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\royaraid-a.akamaihd.netSOFTWARE\RoyalRaidSOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\RoyalRaidSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Service Mgr RoyalRaidSYSTEM\ControlSet001\services\Update Mgr RoyalRaidSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\Service Mgr RoyalRaidSYSTEM\ControlSet002\services\Update Mgr RoyalRaidSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Service Mgr RoyalRaidSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Update Mgr RoyalRaidHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Royal Raid

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%PROGRAMFILES%\Royal Raid%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Royal Raid%temp%\Royal Raid
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