Quickstart.ninja
Posted: April 17, 2017
Threat Metric
The following fields listed on the Threat Meter containing a specific value, are explained in detail below:
Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.
Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.
Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.
Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.
% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.
Threat Level: | 5/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 5 |
First Seen: | April 17, 2017 |
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Last Seen: | July 24, 2018 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Quickstart.ninja is a questionable website that has been considered by many to be a browser hijacker. Upon first glance, Quickstart.ninja is a generic form of the Bing search engine site that may return search query results that are accompanied by several sponsored links or advertisements. It is believed that the creators of Quickstart.ninja market the site as par to of a pay-per-click scheme to earn money based on the clicks of those who use its Internet search feature. The search function of Quickstart.ninja is known to use a customized Bing search, which appears to be legitimate results for most computer users. Reversing the effects of Quickstart.ninja automatically loading on some PCs using popular web browsers may require going into the Internet settings or control panel of the web browser app. For some PC users, Quickstart.ninja may be automatically eliminated through use of an antimalware tool be seeking all related add-on browser extensions and then removing each of them.
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