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SkyEmoji Ads

Posted: August 7, 2015

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 199
First Seen: July 29, 2015
Last Seen: May 2, 2022
OS(es) Affected: Windows

SkyEmoji is an unreliable application that the experts classify as Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP). The reason for this designation is the discrepancy between the promised features and the actual performance. More particularly, the people behind this questionable software don't inform the users about all the adverse aspects adequately. SkyEmoji states that it will improve the online communication of its clients by unlocking hidden Skype emoticons. While it indeed gives access to some new emojis, the people you are chatting with will be unable to see them unless they also have SkyEmoji. As a result, the benefits of keeping this PUP are almost non-existent but the presence of some annoying side-effects is inevitable. This dubious tool creates an add-on and places it simultaneously in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. This act allows SkyEmoji to insert numerous ads to the sites you attend. Such performance may start to disturb you pretty soon as the new pop-ups, banners and interstitial ads come in vast amounts and are known to be aggressive. Their existence is often accompanied by performance-related issuesPerformance-related issues often accompany their existence – you may experience random drops of speed or freezes. The purpose of the marketing materials is to boost the traffic towards third-party partner sites. For the service, the developers of SkyEmoji earn referral commissions. Nothing guarantees that the sponsored domains are safe, so for the sake of keeping your PC clean and reliable you should stay away from them. The advice of the specialists is to delete SkyEmoji as soon as possible with a dedicated anti-malware solution.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\skemoji

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%PROGRAMFILES%\skemoji%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\skemoji
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