Deceiving domain - Arcadegiant.com

Arcadegiant.com is a website that specializes in a variety of online puzzle, action, arcade, strategy, sports, and other games. By visiting the site, users are allowed to play games for free, although they are required to download or enable Flash player. The latter is an outdated browser component with multiple flaws and is discouraged from being used by many security experts. By enabling Flash, users are diminishing the overall security of their computers.

Besides allowing users to play games, Arcadegiant.com also offers them to download an add-on or an application Arcade Giant. By installing such an app, users agree for it to track their web browsing activities by implementing cookies and other tracking technologies. Additionally, users have to remove these cookies from their browsers separately if they want the advertisements from Arcadegiant.com to stop.

Name	Arcadegiant.com
Related application/browser extension	Arcade Giant
Distribution	Software can be downloaded on the official site or installed via third-party installers unintentionally
Deceptors	Website and software installs tracking technologies like cookies and displays ads that might expose users to unsafe online content
Risks	Users need to enable Flash player in order to play website-provided games, which renders their machines vulnerable to cyberattacks; users might be redirected to websites that operate various scam schemes to obtain their personal information or make them install potentially unwanted software/malware
Detection	The site is recognized as malicious by seven AV vendors on Virus Total

Arcadegiant.com violations

2CR-015: Arcadegiant.com is marked as malicious by several anti-virus vendors