What is Start.qone8.com?
Start.qone8.com is a website that is set as your home page when you get infected with Qone8 Virus. It is not a genuine computer virus, as the infection is classified as browser hijacker. Therefore, it may change your default home page either to qone8.com or start.qone8.com. Recently, computer users seem to be complaining more about being redirected to start.qone8.com. In such a case, you need to remove the browser hijacker from your computer, and restore your browser settings to default. Refer to the instructions below this description in order to delete start.qone8.com from your browser, and do not forget to scan your PC with a powerful antimalware tool.
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Where does start.qone8.com come from?
Since start.qone8.com is directly associated with Qone8 Virus, it comes from the same group of infections as Delta-Homes, PortaldoSites, Qvo6 Virus and so on. All of these browser hijackers actually do not look like computer infections. For what it’s worth start.qone8.com and similar websites resemble perfect search engines that provide you with relevant search results.
What is more, rather than entering your system surreptitiously with Trojans and what not, start.qone8.com often comes bundled with freeware applications such as video codecs, media players and/or adware applications. It means that the user himself/herself might install the browser hijacker on his/her PC without even realizing it. Hence, it calls for caution whenever you install a freeware application on your computer.
What does start.qone8.com do?
As you can probably tell, once this browser hijacker is installed on your computer, your default search engine and home page are modified for start.qone8.com. The browser hijacker exhibits such behavior in order to redirect you to associated websites, increasing their traffic. Increased traffic allows the said websites to generate financial profit.
Also, start.qone8.com makes use of cookies to track your web browsing activity and then display related commercial ads. These built-in and pop-up ads are the most risky part of the infection, because start.qone8.com employs a third party advertising network to displays those ads. Therefore, a third party can embed its own content into the browser hijacker’s ads, and start.qone8.com would not be responsible for reviewing them.
Hence, this infection can be misused by even more malevolent third party to display corrupted content that, once clicked, would potentially lead to malware infection.
How to remove start.qone8.com?
Although serious malware infection is a not a definite outcome of this situation, you should not ignore the fact that such case is possible. Make use of the instructions below to reset your browser settings to default and then run a full system scan with SpyHunter free scanner, because you are bound to have other potentially dangerous programs installed on your PC. Do not forget that start.qone8.com does not come alone. Invest in a powerful antimalware tool if necessary and protect your PC from serious threats.
Modify Shortcut Target
- Right-click the shortcut of your browser.
- Click Properties and open Shortcut tab.
- Go to Target line and delete everything that is OUTSIDE of quotation marks. Press OK.
Reset browser settings to default
Internet Explorer
- Press Alt+X and click Internet options.
- Select Advanced tab and press Reset.
- Mark Delete personal settings and click Reset.
- When reset is complete click Close.
Mozilla Firefox
- Press Firefox button and navigate to Help.
- Click Troubleshooting information and press Reset Firefox at the top right corner of a new tab.
- Click Reset Firefox on a pop-up dialog box.
- When reset is complete, click Finish.
Modify Google Chrome Settings
- Press Alt+F and go to Settings.
- Select Open a specific page or set of pages and press Set Pages.
- Delete start.qone8.com, enter a new home page address and click OK.
- Press Manage search engines button under Search.
- Set a new default search engine, delete start.qone8.com and click Done.
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