Quizulous Toolbar
Posted: August 30, 2010
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 |
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Infected PCs: | 26,951 |
First Seen: | August 30, 2010 |
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Last Seen: | October 28, 2022 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Quizulous Toolbar is an unwanted toolbar/potentially unwanted application that may be installed to the PC together with free software that are available for download for computer users on the Internet. Quizulous Toolbar may make modifications to the Web browser and strive to advertise irrelevant questionable websites. Quizulous Toolbar may be embedded into Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome Web browsers. Quizulous Toolbar may use misleading techniques to install itself onto the Web browser without the computer user's approval. Quizulous Toolbar may interrupt with the PC user's surfing activity. Quizulous Toolbar may repeatedly show numerous pop-up ads that carry discount coupons, deals, offers and sponsored links. If the PC user clicks on them, the authors of these advertisements may generate advertising revenue by diverting the computer user to suspicious websites. Quizulous Toolbar may give PC users search results that are based on affiliated websites.
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Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:%PROGRAMFILES%\QuizulousBar\toolbar\1.bin\q2barsvc.exe
File name: q2barsvc.exeSize: 28.76 KB (28766 bytes)
MD5: c7894f75ed81631c159afe27f9d448ce
Detection count: 8,345
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\QuizulousBar\toolbar\1.bin
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 15, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES%\QuizulousBar\toolbar\1.bin\q2Plugin.dll
File name: q2Plugin.dllSize: 49.15 KB (49152 bytes)
MD5: f292d98b89b54e867124ccbecf32b144
Detection count: 6,333
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\QuizulousBar\toolbar\1.bin
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 15, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES%\QuizulousBar\toolbar\1.bin\q2SrcAs.dll
File name: q2SrcAs.dllSize: 65.53 KB (65536 bytes)
MD5: 31b2b50c6da03ed9e9925d07a8571048
Detection count: 6,200
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\QuizulousBar\toolbar\1.bin
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 15, 2014
%PROGRAMFILES%\QuizulousBar\toolbar\1.bin\q2bar.dll
File name: q2bar.dllSize: 323.58 KB (323584 bytes)
MD5: cb5bd4f1ef609be348542c1887ea58bc
Detection count: 5,872
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\QuizulousBar\toolbar\1.bin
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 15, 2014
Registry Modifications
HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\AppDataLow\Software\QuizulousSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{392d065e-4679-4d12-8342-2a2d505fd309}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Approved Extensions\{f675d3df-504c-4e3c-bea8-a45b3b9bbd1b}Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION\tb_Quizulous.exeSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION\tb_Quizulous2.exe
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