QuickVideoPlayer Ads
Posted: July 16, 2015
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: | 1/10 |
---|---|
Infected PCs: | 26 |
First Seen: | July 16, 2015 |
---|---|
Last Seen: | March 25, 2020 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The security experts label QuickVideoPlayer as a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) because its cons outweigh the pros. The application's only positive feature is to allow its clients to create video playlists. The PUP claims that its playlists can contain both online content and videos, saved on the hard drive. If the users get tricked by this description and install QuickVideoPlayer, they are about to be negatively surprised. The application has a broad impact on all detected browsers, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. It modifies some core settings to insert various commercial materials. These new ads come as pop-ups, banners, interstitial and in-text ads, and may be seen on the majority of visited pages. Whenever you click on some of the offered products and deals, the developers of the PUP will receive a pay-per-click commission. However, visiting the sponsored platforms has its risks as they may be harmful. Many cyber hoaxes happen after the user is redirected to some misleading page, so you should ignore the ads. Although the PUP has its own official page, it most often comes as an additional program towards freeware. The security experts advise against keeping QuickVideoPlayer as there are many other applications with similar functionality, which come without the side effects.
Leave a Reply
Please note that we are not able to assist with billing and support issues regarding SpyHunter or other products. If you're having issues with SpyHunter, please get in touch with SpyHunter customer support through your SpyHunter . If you have SpyHunter billing questions, we recommend you check the Billing FAQ. For general suggestions or feedback, contact us.