Qone8.com
Threat Scorecard
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| Popularity Rank: | 8,431 |
| Threat Level: | 50 % (Medium) |
| Infected Computers: | 16,221 |
| First Seen: | June 3, 2013 |
| Last Seen: | October 24, 2025 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
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There have been reports of a PC threat designed to force computer users to visit Qone8.com repeatedly. Other characteristics associated with these PC infections include unauthorized changes to the victim's settings, pop-up windows and unwanted advertising. These kinds of PC infections are known as browser hijackers. In the case of Qone8.com, browser hijackers associated with this website will usually take the form of a web browser toolbar that is installed by the victim's themselves, believing that they are installing a harmless extension for their Web browser. Typically, browser hijackers associated with Qone8.com are acquired from compromised freeware programs, and while it is possible to opt out from their installation, many computer users fail to do so. If you are experiencing Qone8.com redirects, ESG malware analysts highly commend using a strong anti-malware program to scan your PC and remove these unwanted symptoms.
Web traffic is a very valuable commodity due to the fact that it can often be monetized into advertisement revenue. In other words, marketers can benefit from directing computer users to visit a particular website if that means that they will be open to several advertising strategies which may include sponsored search results, banner advertisements, and affiliate marketing links. In fact, low quality search engines like Qone8.com can be quite lucrative, which has meant that these kinds of scams have increased quickly in the last couple of years. Typically, browser hijackers associated with Qone8.com force the victim to visit Qone8.com by displaying this website in pop-up windows, changing the infected Web browser's predefined websites to Qone8.com, and redirecting the computer user constantly to this low quality search engine.
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Preventing Malware Infections Associated with Qone8.com
The vast majority of web browser hijacker infections, including those associated with Qone8.com, are usually Web browser extensions or toolbars that are installed by the computer user. Often, these will be bundled with freeware programs with the option (often concealed) to opt out from the installation. Because of this, it is possible to prevent PC threats associated with Qone8.com simply by avoiding the download of freeware programs from third party sources and always using custom installation to ensure that every component being installed is actually a part of the freeware program and not web browser toolbars and other software used to fill the bill at the expense of the computer user.
SpyHunter Detects & Remove Qone8.com
File System Details
| # | File Name | MD5 |
Detections
Detections: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on
infected computers as reported by SpyHunter.
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | cor_ar_qone8.exe | 3c9c391e565d6a7418964c9e9d146cd9 | 42 |
| 2. | smt_qone8_new.exe | 6ab29b7c4194ba37b540b0878c20fb9f | 38 |
| 3. | adks_ar_qone8_20131022.exe | 31db95190350a91470bca5127fec0e9a | 33 |
| 4. | awh82FE.tmp | 46b9b48464a88accc39ba599508e490b | 31 |
| 5. | vtt_ar_qone8.exe | b8c108b48f291173d3de1bff6ea2b56b | 23 |
| 6. | smt_qone8.exe | b1be1561a302ae5908dd69a015ecd21a | 23 |
| 7. | wpc_ar_20131012172031_qone8.exe | 21968065cd48171cf3e9fe33c55fa57e | 14 |
| 8. | vtt_qone8.exe | 631010cf79276c1125d98da0663eaec4 | 14 |
| 9. | adks_qone8.exe | bdc4686f840441d462c3eed3b7d7c6d5 | 7 |
| 10. | qone8.exe | f3db65691e51c34c3c3e687fb0243c41 | 6 |
| 11. | amt_ar_qone8.exe | 90f1bc2840596a48305f7ca1c8fcd974 | 5 |
| 12. | qone8installer.exe | f06c4455c740b192fd37cee9501327f2 | 4 |
| 13. | sien_qone8.exe | d4a1e11f2c16e035d687c151837b9593 | 4 |
| 14. | nsb3_ar_qone8.exe | 095885a3b8aa1e7cd720cd255fd17109 | 3 |
| 15. | tugs_qone8.exe | c3731247baaa29d326b442691240ae80 | 3 |
| 16. | nsb1_ar_qone8.exe | efb1f32dd41328d1fb689508d4d0e51e | 2 |
| 17. | httptart.qone8.com | d06d75f844c89f7e7b91c3adba34821c | 2 |
| 18. | amt_qone8.exe | 7436de41267e2e556ca95d1134e5713f | 2 |
| 19. | nsbit_qone8.exe | 29704641833251ed1eeafe28b4fd3e5d | 2 |
| 20. | nsbes_qone8.exe | 9e9ac9eed092e4eb79f427f09adb195b | 2 |
| 21. | mp3_qone8.exe | 65d1d1d8306ece43e908f8f94109dc16 | 2 |
| 22. | adks_ar_qone8.exe | af4dd0d2a919025619cd73f398fa49ea | 1 |
| 23. | bdo_qone8.exe | bbc23d8a54088f73bf661ca2d5bdb654 | 1 |
| 24. | uni_qone8.exe | e9e372746138a307ca2b4f8963dc3d00 | 1 |
| 25. | q8.exe | 4921338fbeb51f3f5c8f4307970456cc | 0 |
Registry Details
Directories
Qone8.com may create the following directory or directories:
| %AppData%\qone8 |
URLs
Qone8.com may call the following URLs:
| http://qone8.com/ |
