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QQovd.com

Posted: June 29, 2015

Threat Metric

Ranking: 10,999
Threat Level: 5/10
Infected PCs: 2,916
First Seen: June 29, 2015
Last Seen: October 14, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows


QQovd.com appears to be a brand new search engine, but you don't have any reason to trust QQovd.com when you need information. This questionable site may appear as your homepage in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer automatically. This plugin is promoted as a 'browser assistant' that should make your surfing sessions more enjoyable by offering Adobe Flash games on sponsored online gaming platforms. However, the services that QQovd.com may provide may not be useful in any way, so you should not agree to download it. QQovd.com cannot optimize the process of searching for information because QQovd.com doesn't rely on some new method to show you more suitable results. The only difference you may notice is that when you perform a search on go.next-search.net, there are more ads than usual. The sponsored links may appear as the best results, but they may not correspond to your criteria at all. They may lead to third-party affiliate pages, some of which may attempt to sell you some products. For bringing you to the pages of its partners, the people behind QQovd.com receive some commissions. QQovd.com may record the sites you visit to create a profile for you, which means that the ads may attract your interest. However, computer users should not click on them because you may end up on some compromised page. Users report that once QQovd.com replaces their default homepage, it may be very hard to restore the change. If you wish to delete QQovd.com and stop the loading of unwanted advertisements, you should use an advanced anti-malware tool.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

File name without pathhttp_www.qqovd.com_0.localstoragehttp_www.qqovd.com_0.localstorage-journalwww.qqovd[1].xmlHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\qqovd.comSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\www.qqovd.comSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\DOMStorage\qqovd.comSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\DOMStorage\www.qqovd.com

Additional Information

The following URL's were detected:
qqovd.com
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