What is QuickFilmz.com?
QuickFilmz.com is a website that you get redirected to forcefully when you click an adware-related pop-up. The pop-ups that redirect users to potentially corrupted websites such as QuickFilmz.com, hdzion.com, cinahitz.com, vidbliss.com and many others are generated by browser extensions that are installed on user computers bundled with freeware. In such a case it is hard to determine one exact program which would be responsible for QuickFilmz.com appearing on your computer. To get rid of QuickFilmz.com, you need to remove all the programs that might be related to the pop-up. To determine the programs, scan the PC with reliable antimalware tool.
Where does QuickFilmz.com come from?
The pop-up usually belongs to adware applications that in-turn are bundled with freeware apps that are wildly available for download on third party websites. Based on our security research, the QuickFilmz.com pop-up may appear after you have installed SafeWeb, SNT, YoutubeAdblocker or any similar application on your computer. None of these apps has its own download page, so it means that they come bundled with freeware through third party installers. For example, QuickFilmz.com might appear on your computer after you have installed Optimizer Pro via EZDownloader.
What is more, QuickFilmz.com may also be displayed as a media player update pop-up, when you install affiliated adware applications on your computer.
What does QuickFilmz.com do?
Technically, the website itself cannot cause you any harm. However, after a few redirections here and there, you may eventually think that you have landed on a website that offer you a wide selection of videos, while in fact all the websites this pop-up redirects to are part of a big scam scheme. The scam is devised to lure your money out of you. The website offers you a free trial, but before you go it manages to get your credit card information and if you do not cancel the free trial for $0.99 within 5 days you are then automatically give a premium subscription and you get charged monthly for it.
Technically, it is not illegal, because users give away their credit card information willingly, however, it may result is serious money loss, so it is important that you remove QuickFilmz.com and all the related applications from your computer before any of that happens.
How to remove QuickFilmz.com?
As it has been mentioned in the first paragraph, in order to get rid of QuickFilmz.com and related pop-ups, you need to remove applications that are responsible for displaying them. There might be other applications displaying QuickFilmz.com apart from SNT, SafeWeb or YoutubeAdblocker, so to determine what programs you need to remove, scan the system with SpyHunter free scanner and then after manual removal get yourself a licensed antimalware tool that will help you safeguard the system against similar threats in the future.
Manual program removal
Windows 8
- Slide mouse cursor to the bottom right of desktop.
- When Charm bar appears, click Settings and go to Control Panel.
- Under Programs click Uninstall a program.
- Highlight unwanted application and click Uninstall.
Windows Vista & Windows 7
- Open Start menu and go to Control Panel.
- Go to Uninstall a program and remove unwanted applications.
Windows XP
- Click Start menu button and go to Settings.
- Select Control Panel and access Add or remove programs.
- Uninstall any undesirable application.
tested removal of QuickFilmz.com*
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