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QuizScope Ads

Posted: January 11, 2016

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 54
First Seen: January 11, 2016
Last Seen: December 20, 2019
OS(es) Affected: Windows

QuizScope Ads are advertisements that may be customized to display certain content that is enticing to most computer users to garner the attention that leads to them clicking on the ad. The QuizScope Ads come in popup or banner formats when you are surfing the internet where they may display random products or supposed deals on items similar to those you have viewed in the pats on your web browser. QuizScope Ads are able to do this through gather of your web browser history or tracking your activities on the Internet. Using the QuizScope Ads by clicking on them is known to cause redirects to other sites that also advertise related products and services. Additionally, QuizScope Ads may cause reduced performance of some web browser applications making your web surfing experience a bit difficult in some cases. It is important that the QuizScope Ads not be allowed to continually run and load up as popups or banners on your system. Utilizing caution when installing freeware programs will reduce the changes of QuizScope Ad components loading on your computer. Removal of QuizScope Ads manually is usually a task that involves finding all related web browser add-on components or extensions and removing each of them after they have been disabled.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Classes\QuizScope.ControlSoftware\Classes\QuizScope.Control.1Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Low Rights\ElevationPolicy\{1E39BC1B-B502-4166-AD13-EDFD3A0E4975}SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer\Browser Helper Objects\{D0405B37-CB13-4185-B08B-17CF898DD4C2}

Additional Information

The following directories were created:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\QuizScope

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