PlayPopGames

Posted by Max Lehmann on April 14, 2016

What is PlayPopGames?

PlayPopGames is an application closely associated with the website playpopgames.com. This website contains a collection of different online games, and users who want to play them for free are offered to install particular software. This application is going to display advertisements for you. It is very likely that it is created to drive traffic to third-party web pages and thus generate money for the owner of playpopgames.com. It might seem quite fair to allow the administrator of the webpage to earn some money for the job he/she does; however, you should not forget about the safety of your computer as well. According to researchers at anti-spyware-101.com, the PlayPopGames software is definitely not the most trustworthy one. It might even cause harm to your system during the time. You are the only one who can decide whether it is worth to risk infecting the system with malware. In case you decide that the safety of your computer is more important for you than free online games, you should delete the PlayPopGames application from the system right now. You will find out how to do that further in this article. test test

What does PlayPopGames do?

If you install PlayPopGames on your computer or it enters your system with the help of freeware and shareware, you will definitely notice its folder in %LOCALAPPDATA% or %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data, depending on the version of Windows OS running on your computer. If you open the Registry Editor, we are sure that you will notice a new registry key (HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\playpopgames.com) created too. Specialists also say that you might notice new shortcuts on the Desktop as well.

As you already know, PlayPopGames is an ad-supported program that is going to display in-text, transitional, pop-up, and pop-under ads. On top of that, it might display banners on online shopping websites. It is not advisable to click on any of those ads you see on your screen even though they look decent and quite interesting because you might end up on the corrupted website and infect your system with malicious software. Also, specialists are sure that PlayPopGames will gather information about users’ activities on the web in order to provide them with interesting commercial ads. Luckily, the application says that it will not record any personal details. Of course, nobody knows whether it is really true, so users who want to be sure that their privacy is safe should eliminate this adware from their systems.

Where does PlayPopGames come from?

Research carried out by our security specialists has shown that this application is mainly targeted at users living in the USA; however, it is very likely that people from other countries might also detect this suspicious software on their systems. It is because PlayPopGames might also travel in software bundles together with additional software and might be available for download on third-party websites despite the fact that its main source is playpopgames.com. It is not very easy to protect the system from suspicious software but, of course, it is possible to do that. All you need to do is to do is to install a security tool on the system and always keep it there. In addition, it would be clever not to download software from third-party websites because adware and similar threats tend to travel in software bundles that can be downloaded from such websites. Last but not least, we highly recommend that you ignore all kinds of links and advertisements you come across on the web because malware might be installed immediately after you click on an untrustworthy link or commercial.

How to delete PlayPopGames

PlayPopGames is not a very harmful computer infection; however, it is still better to get rid of it for the sake of your system’s safety. The application can be removed from Control Panel because it has an uninstaller; however, we cannot say the same about those additional programs that have been installed alongside this adware. The quickest way to find and delete those programs is to scan the system with a reputable antimalware scanner, e.g. SpyHunter. It will make your system clean within seconds, and it will also make sure that other threats cannot sneak onto your PC without permission.