Aqovd.com
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| Ranking: | 14,387 |
| Threat Level: | 50 % (Medium) |
| Infected Computers: | 5,213 |
| First Seen: | May 29, 2015 |
| Last Seen: | February 22, 2024 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
The Aqovd.com is a site that may not be the best place to start surfing the Internet, despite its content that includes news reports, shopping offers, videos and games. The Aqovd.com site is associated with a browser hijacker that may redirect infected users to corrupted Web pages and initiate a drive-by download of badware like PC Protector Plus and PC Defender Plus. Security investigators reveal that the Aqovd.com browser hijacker may appear as a browser extension that invites users to install it and grant unrestricted access to the Internet. The 89.163.148.240 IP address of Aqovd.com may be linked to several cyber threats like Ardamax and Golden Keylogger, and Web surfers that visit Aqovd.com may be at risk of being infected with information collecting threats. The Aqovd.com domain is flagged as threatening by several security authorities that include Cisco Cloud Web Security, Websense Web Filter and Google Safe Browsing. There are many reports on Aqovd.com that the site's infrastructure may not be secure and include links to other harmful domains and cyber threats.
Computer users that are infected with the Aqovd.com browser hijacker may experience program crashes and pop-up windows that suggest them to install patches or upgrades to their Adobe Flash Player. Do not trust the messages coming from Aqovd.com and avoid clicking on banners featuring FLV-based advertisements because you may be subjected to a Web-based attack at vulnerabilities in your plug-ins. The Aqovd.com browser hijacker may function as a browser service and hide its presence within the svchost.exe host process of Windows. Computer users that do not have in-depth knowledge of the Windows ecosystem are not advised to make manipulations to their Windows Registry and Windows Task Manager to try to remove the Aqovd.com browser hijacker manually. The better and safer way to remove the Aqovd.com browser hijacker is to install a trusted anti-malware utility.
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Aliases
1 security vendors flagged this file as malicious.
| Anti-Virus Software | Detection |
|---|---|
| Symantec | PUA.Downloader |
SpyHunter Detects & Remove Aqovd.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. | crsvc.exe | 0f86442b238f1c9ca69cb8d662deb05b | 1,170 |
Registry Details
Directories
Aqovd.com may create the following directory or directories:
| %LOCALAPPDATA%\Crsoft |
URLs
Aqovd.com may call the following URLs:
| aqovd.com |
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