QuizScope Ads
Posted: January 11, 2016
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: | 2/10 |
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Infected PCs: | 54 |
First Seen: | January 11, 2016 |
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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
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}
still have quis adds over my email info.