Win32/Qhost

Win32/Qhost is a Trojan horse infection that is used to replace or change the HOSTS file where corresponding IP addresses and names of remote computers are contained. Win32/Qhost uses a tactic of increasing the incoming traffic volume to a particular site. Once your system is infected with Win32/Qhost, you may get several warning or pop-up messages that could redirect you to a malicious website. Manual removal of Win32/Qhost may be difficult and dangerous to perform as you could delete essential system files in the process.