This new Red Shell here reads your browser history, or at least your coockies. That is how it explores the habits of a games customer. So yes, it is "actual malware", spyware.

Jun 20, 2018 · About 20 PC games — including The Elder Scrolls Online and Conan Exiles — have removed a piece of third-party spyware tracking users’ activity outside of the game, and dozens more are said to...

Jun 17, 2018 · Red Shell told gamers that it is not spyware even though it shares the name with a “14-year-old trojan.” As for tracking, the company says it “tracks information about devices.

Jun 20, 2018 · That's been the case with Red Shell, a tracking service that sleuthing gamers have found inside PC games. Since the tracker – which largely collects information about player's...

Games that contain or once contained Red Shell.

Jun 19, 2018 · In Mario Kart, red shells target your nearest rival and ruthlessly stop them in their tracks. Everybody hates them. Marketing company Red Shell, meanwhile, helps video game companies more...

Jun 9, 2018 · Red shell is a Spyware that tracks data of your PC and shares it with 3rd parties. On their website they formulate it all in very harmless language, but the fact is that this is software from someone i don't trust and whom i never invited, which is looking at my data and running on my pc against my will.

Jul 27, 2018 · Red Shell Explained. Red Shell is an analytics software which collects data rendered anonymous or pseudonymized data on players for marketing purposes. It runs in the background, gathering information on ad clicks so that developers are aware of which of their marketing strategies work.

Jun 17, 2018 · After the discovery of marketing analytic tool Red Shell in several games, users are rallying for its removal, calling it a "spyware" device.

Jul 20, 2018 · Since the controversy began, Red Shell has put a whole heap of new bits on its website addressing privacy concerns. A new page for gamers aims to more clearly break down how info is collected,...