GamesZing

Posted by Lisa Blanc on July 7, 2016

What is GamesZing?

Although GamesZing seems like an authentic and helpful game manager, this program does not actually help you play games. Yes, it does give you access to some games, but the main function of this program is to display advertisements. This program can do it all when it comes to online advertising. It collects information that is used for the development or selection of ads, it provides data to third-party advertisers, and it injects advertisements. It does that using an extension installed on your Internet Explorer browser, an app installed on the PC, and data-tracking tools (e.g., HTTP cookies) that are installed silently. If you are informed about the installation of cookies, you might choose to reject them, which is the move we recommend, but, in that case, you should remove GamesZing itself because its functionality decreases without them. In fact, we recommend deleting this adware regardless of the circumstances. test test test

How does GamesZing work?

GamesZing is practically identical to TapBreaker, and it functions in the same way as such infamous game managers as Game Wham, DeepBlue Games, or ArcadeHall. The official installer of this advertising-supported program is available from gameszing.com, but our research team at Anti-Spyware-101.com warns that this adware could also come bundled. The official installer is not represented in a conventional manner, and it does not have a page dedicated to it. Instead, this installer is downloaded automatically if you want to play games in the “fun pass” category. If you run the installer, you are immediately granted access to the desired game, but you also let in an advertising-supported program that can display interstitial, in-text, pop-up, and banner advertisements promoting suspicious shopping deals, installers, and other kinds of offers. If you have researched the program before installing it, you must have known that ads would show up. Even if you have done no research, you should understand the source of ads as they will be represented with tags identifying it. If you see ads without tags, it is possible that additional ad-supported software was installed onto your computer.

As we have mentioned previously, GamesZing might come bundled. While it could come packaged with completely harmless and, possibly, reliable programs, it could also be bundled with dangerous malware. Considering that malicious threats could have deceiving interfaces and that they could be installed without your knowledge, you should not assume that your PC is clean. Instead, quickly perform a full system scan to examine your operating system and see if malware exists. A trusted malware scanner will also inform you if malicious tracking cookies are active on your operating system. Even if none are detected, we advise removing GamesZing -related cookies because they could be used to leak information to unknown parties. If you erase these cookies, the developer of the adware will no longer be able to select ads depending on your virtual activity or observe the activity of the program itself. Basically, the app might become nonfunctional after you erase the cookies, and so we recommend deleting it as well.

How to delete GamesZing

Although GamesZing might grant you access to some interesting games, it is best that you erase this ad-supported program from your operating system. All that this program is good for is showing suspicious third-party ads, and we are sure that you are not interested in seeing ads every time you play online games. On top of that, these annoying advertisements might be unreliable, and interacting with them might be dangerous. If this adware is the only unwanted program active on your PC, you can use the guide below to erase it. However, if other unreliable programs are present, the best thing you can do is install an authentic anti-malware tool that will erase malware/unreliable programs automatically. You should invest in this software even if you successfully clean your operating system manually because it provides the full-time protection you need to evade other malicious threats in the future.