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| Type of business | Limited |
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Type of site | Internet games, E-cards |
| Available in | English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Brazilian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Hungarian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | , |
| Key people | Rob Small: CEO Tihan Presbie: President |
| URL | www.miniclip.com |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2000 |
| Current status | Active |
Miniclip is an online company known for its browser-based games and previously a small amount of cartoons.[citation needed] It was launched in 2001 [1] by Robert Small and Tihan Presbie on a budget of £40,000.[citation needed] As of 2008, the company has been valued at over £200 million, having been profitable for six of its seven years, with turnovers exceeding £20 million in the past two years. [2]
Timeline
- 2000: Website opened
- January 31, 2006: Well-known game Club Penguin added to Miniclip.
- July 10, 2006: Changed look of the website.
- December 11, 2006: Toons and Ecards launched.
- September 21, 2007: Toons and Ecards closed. It is replaced by Players.
- January 6, 2009: SketchStar launched.
Awards
Miniclip has won the Webby People's Voice Award for "Best Games Website" in the years 2005, 2006 and 2007. The "Webbys" are determined by an online poll, which is open for anybody to vote.
In 2008, Miniclip was nominated for the BAFTA Children's Awards in the Kids' Vote category [3].
Online Security Issues
Several security firms reported in 2005 that some Miniclip users had installed a DLL; "miniclipgameloader.dll" which contains the hostile code identified as "Trojan DownLoader 3069".[4][5] Removal tools are available. Reports in 2006 from the same security vendors show the same file as not containing hostile code.[6][7] In 2006, the security firm Sunbelt Software reported that Miniclip installed "high risk" malware called "Trojan-Downloader.CR64Loader".[8] On September 1, 2006, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued an advisory concerning Miniclip:
The Retro64 / Miniclip CR64Loader ActiveX control contains a buffer overflow vulnerability. This may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute an arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.... Although the ActiveX control is no longer in use by either retro64.com or miniclip.com, any system that has used certain pages of these web sites in the past may be vulnerable.[9]
References
- ^ "How we built Miniclip.com". .net. 17/01/2007.
{{cite news}}: Check date values in:|date=(help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ FT.com - Game Plan Keeps It Simple
- ^ Childrens Bafta Nominations 2008 (PDF)
- ^ CastleCops 2005 security advisory
- ^ Prevx 2005 security advisory
- ^ CastleCops 2006 security advisory
- ^ PrevX 2006 security advisory
- ^ Sunbelt Software "Trojan-Downloader.CR64Loader" report.
- ^ https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/649289 US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#649289