ArcadeGiants

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What is ArcadeGiants?

The software provides games to play in exchange for allowing to display of third party ads in the browser.

From the Terms of Service: "Premium Games are offered free of charge at the Site in exchange for your agreement to install the ArcadeGiant Software (the "Software"). The Software will allow us to display third party applications as well as text link, popup/under, shopping, transitional and banner advertisements on your computer based on the information we collect from you as described in the Privacy Policy."

Overview

A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). The main program executable is updater.exe. The software installer includes 3 files and is usually about 14.51 MB (15,213,283 bytes). updater.exe is the automatic update component of the software designed to download and apply new updates should new versions be released.

Possible malware installed by this program
Displays unwanted advertisements

Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in ArcadeGiants.

updater.exe (d8338ec0d73fd7eb463c6106bfde2764) has been flagged by the following 15 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Version	Detection
Lavasoft Ad-Aware	663	Gen:Variant.Adware.GameVance.28
ALYac	1.0.1.4	Gen:Variant.Adware.GameVance.28
AVware	1.5.0.21	GameVance (fs)
Bitdefender	1.0.20.515	Gen:Variant.Adware.GameVance.28
Emsisoft Anti-Malware	8.15.04.13.01	Gen:Variant.Adware.GameVance.28
F-Secure	11.2015-13-04_2	Gen:Variant.Adware.GameVance
G Data	15.4.25	Gen:Variant.Adware.GameVance.28
Malwarebytes	v2015.04.13.01	PUP.Optional.ArcadeGiant.A
McAfee	5600.6797	Artemis!D8338EC0D73F
McAfee-GW-Edition	7.6797	Artemis
MicroWorld-eScan	16.0.0.309	Gen:Variant.Adware.GameVance.28
Sophos	4.98	Arcade Giant
Symantec	4/13/2015 rev. 2	Gamevance
Vba32 AntiVirus	3.12.26.3	suspected of Trojan.Downloader.gen.h
VIPRE Antivirus	38612	GameVance (fs)
AgHelp.dll (1c0fadf84e0d5f9a32406398843cfaf6) has been flagged by the following 5 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Software version	Detection
Lavasoft Ad-Aware	12.0.163.0	Gen:Variant.Adware.GameVance.28
Bitdefender	7.2	Gen:Variant.Adware.GameVance.28
Emsisoft Anti-Malware	3.0.0.600	Gen:Variant.Adware.GameVance.28 (B)
G Data	25	Gen:Variant.Adware.GameVance.28
MicroWorld-eScan	12.0.250.0	Gen:Variant.Adware.GameVance.28

View all 20 all detections

Program details

Displayed publisher: ArcadeGiants

URL: www.arcadegiant.com

License: View the full license agreement (EULA) for ArcadeGiants

Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\local\arcadegiant

Uninstaller: C:\users\user\appdata\Local\ArcadeGiant\uninstaller.exe

Estimated size: 14.51 MB

Files installed by ArcadeGiants

Program executable:	updater.exe (Malware detected)
Name:	ArcadeGiant
Path:	C:\users\user\appdata\local\arcadegiant\updater.exe
MD5:	d8338ec0d73fd7eb463c6106bfde2764

Additional files:

uninstaller.exe - ArcadeGiant
(Malware detected) AgHelp.dll

Behaviors exhibited

2 Scheduled Tasks

AgHelp.dll is scheduled as a task named 'AgSupport' (runs daily at 11:23 PM).
updater.exe is scheduled as a task named 'ArcadeGiant Updater' (runs daily at 7:23 AM).

How do I remove ArcadeGiants?

You can uninstall ArcadeGiants from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.

On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:

Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.

When you find the program ArcadeGiants, click it, and then do one of the following:

Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).

Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove ArcadeGiants.
If for some reason uninstallation fails, please install Microsoft's uninstall fixer utility which will help fix problems with programs that can't be uninstalled at support.microsoft.com.