GamerHippo

By GoldSparrow in Potentially Unwanted Programs

GamerHippo is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that may have a negative impact on the performance of your Web browsers. This questionable software may generate all kinds of commercial materials. Shortly after GamerHippo attaches to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, you may encounter intrusive video ads, pop-ups, banners, in-text ads or page-covering interstitial ads. The majority of users report that the offers and discounts by GamerHippo may be unreliable. The sponsored links may cause substantial annoyance or functionality issues. GamerHippo may be deployed to your system by third-party freeware. This delivery mechanism is known as bundling. It is especially efficient for those PC users who click on the 'I agree' buttons without reading the text. The recommendation of the specialists is to use the 'Advanced' (or sometimes 'Custom) menu to install cost-free applications. It should allow you to choose for yourself which of the included programs to load and which to skip.

GamerHippo also may enter if you download games from gamerhippo.com. The platform contains hundreds of small games, some of which run directly in the browsers. Others require you to install them on the PC, which also may load the potentially unwanted extension. GamerHippo may change parts of the configuration automatically. GamerHippo may replace the homepage and the default search provider. After these modifications take place, you may encounter large amounts of sponsored links whenever you initiate a search. Some of the listed commercial materials that GamerHippo creates may contain multimedia elements. The loading of this kind of ads may lead to speed drops or freezes in case your PC is not that powerful. Do not forget that some of the sites that GamerHippo promotes may be unsafe. On no occasion should you agree to download software from them even if it seems to be an update for Adobe/Java. The right course of action is to eliminate GamerHippo with a leading security tool.

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