Adware.GoingGo
Posted: February 11, 2014
Threat Metric
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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Ranking: | 4,614 |
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Threat Level: | 2/10 |
Infected PCs: | 5,089 |
First Seen: | February 11, 2014 |
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Last Seen: | October 16, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Adware.GoingGo is adware, which may claim that it can make the PC user's Internet surfing and online shopping more effective by allowing numerous website searching and showing discount coupons, offers and deals. Adware.GoingGo may usually be distributed and invade the PC through bundled freeware that computer users can download from unreliable download websites on the Internet. When installed on the computer system, Adware.GoingGo may display random pop-up ads and deals or ads and offers pertaining to the PC user's browsing routine. Adware.GoingGo may collect the computer user's surfing details and transfer and use them for targeted marketing campaigns. Adware.GoingGo may also lead to repeated browser redirects to unidentified websites that may be commercial and were designed to possibly boost website traffic and benefit from clicks on ads. Adware.GoingGo may take over all the Web browsers installed on the computer system and change the default browser settings.
Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\goinggo\updategoinggo.exe
File name: updategoinggo.exeSize: 66.84 KB (66840 bytes)
MD5: fa7723ab784bead179200e7e70903819
Detection count: 89
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\goinggo
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 11, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\goinggo\updategoinggo.exe
File name: updategoinggo.exeSize: 97.04 KB (97048 bytes)
MD5: 716761a84933f0f2f733d871aed87ca7
Detection count: 30
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\goinggo
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 11, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\goinggo\updategoinggo.exe
File name: updategoinggo.exeSize: 102.16 KB (102168 bytes)
MD5: 558fae0ffadbb14f6c211a12360b2577
Detection count: 26
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\goinggo
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 11, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES%\goinggo\bin\utilgoinggo.exe
File name: utilgoinggo.exeSize: 80.15 KB (80152 bytes)
MD5: f93e253a6d08e3844975690b88697f56
Detection count: 14
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\goinggo\bin
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 11, 2014
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{5F65E7F9-E925-435A-B5CA-4127C141452B}
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