WebCake
Threat Scorecard
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| Popularity Rank: | 7,000 |
| Threat Level: | 20 % (Normal) |
| Infected Computers: | 41,284 |
| First Seen: | May 23, 2013 |
| Last Seen: | November 23, 2025 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
WebCake is an adware application that is supposed to enhance your browsing experience but, in actuality, it results in numerous issues on an attacked PC. Although WebCake declares to be a great tool that can give computer users the best offers and discount coupons, as well as an option to compare prices of particular products and services, it causes more inconveniences than benefits. WebCake enters the corrupted PC without the target computer user's permission and, therefore, it is also categorized as a potentially unwanted program. WebCake is usually installed onto the targeted PC together with free software downloads from the web. WebCake can be embedded into Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. WebCake is not a malware threat, and it doesn't harm the affected PC directly. However, WebCake creates various situations that raise the chances of getting contaminated with malware threats and disturbs Internet surfing. WebCake shows a variety of pop-up advertisements on the desktop of the infected computer while the PC user is surfing the Internet, especially if he/she is visiting shopping websites. WebCake shows pop-up advertisements with coupons that offer numerous discounts and announce about offers for the items the web user is interested.
Table of Contents
SpyHunter Detects & Remove WebCake
File System Details
| # | File Name | MD5 |
Detections
Detections: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on
infected computers as reported by SpyHunter.
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | WBDesktop.Updater.exe | 7d66c7460240c5fa7da4e775df9ff328 | 4,066 |
| 2. | WebCakeDesktop.exe.vir | 9eee55b742b65439a0a45bf895e5cea1 | 3,685 |
| 3. | WebCakeDesktop.exe | 12336775941d49ce6a4d6f391cb5e02f | 2,761 |
| 4. | WCDesktop.Updater.exe | f7819b9af563c66708643e3dc48d002f | 2,392 |
| 5. | WDesktop.Updater.exe | 6e3672209d3eef85b5fc010a26c11b73 | 2,305 |
| 6. | OptChrome.exe.vir | 8d86c9d4750d181f4de466b791fcbf09 | 49 |
| 7. | OptChrome.exe | 099c994e04610544e52352c28c616ac8 | 6 |
| 8. | WebCakeIEClient.dll | e17390f81bea343ca0013b5f0595cbc2 | 1 |
Registry Details
Directories
WebCake may create the following directory or directories:
| %APPDATA%\WebCake |
| %AppData%\Movdap |
| %AppData%\Tepfel |
| %AppData%\Web Cake |
| %ProgramFiles%\Movdap |
| %ProgramFiles%\Tepfel |
| %ProgramFiles%\Web Cake |
| %ProgramFiles%\WebCake |
| %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Movdap |
| %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Tepfel |
| %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Web Cake |
| %ProgramFiles(x86)%\WebCake |
