How to Uninstall Qone8 from Firefox?

Introduction

Qone8 is widely known to be an adware. Qone8 hijacker alters your start page or search scopes of Firefox so that you visit only those websites whichever the hijacker wants you to visit. This prevents you from accessing correct or popular results.

How is Qone8 transferred to Firefox?

This hijacker can be transferred to Firefox via various software downloads from various websites and freeware; this is one of the main reasons probably why people are usually not aware of how and when this hijacker gets installed on Firefox. Whenever you install certain free downloads, Qone8 browser hijacker will install itself on your computer and set itself as your default home page or start up page and new tab page of Firefox. One must keep an eye on all the potentially unwanted programs, because Qone8 is usually embedded with these and can ride Firefox from there.

What does Qone8 do to Firefox?

Qone8 being an advertisement supporter, is also a platform to collect revenue with extra advertisement banners and SEO tactics. Once installed, Qone8 will replace the default search engine and your home page. So, it will replace your Firefox home page, hijack your web search and then it will show that it is a good search engine just like the other popular engines. However, it is not a good search engine and it will never give you any reliable results you are looking for.

This hijacker has been designed to promote its search engine, homepage, or other services as well as display ads. It has been seen that it copies style of some popular search engine to provide web, images as well as videos search, and stores information about your web preferences and habits so that it can suggest advertising which resemble it.

Why is Qone8 so dangerous for Firefox?

Qone8 hijacks Firefox by adding its add-ons in it; it will replace the default search engine and home page without your knowledge. A shortcut will be created in order to hang over the web search. In a word, you can never expect the search results of Qone8 as effective as any other reputable search engines. This hijacker is very risky as it might redirect you to various websites which might already be hacked and/or already full of unreliable advertisements in Firefox.

If Qone8 is not removed timely, you might just have more number of viruses or potentially unwanted programs in your computer gradually, and the speed of Firefox will go down.

How to remove Qone8 from Firefox?

Qone8 is a hijacker which is not easily detected with the programs you install, but only when it starts showing its effects on Firefox. Now, this hijacker has been identified as potentially unwanted, so even full versions of various anti-Malware might not protect you against Qone8 hijacker. Qone8 has various capabilities to hook deep into your operating system, and in general it will start interfering with your experience, and hence to have your system clutter free with usual efficiency, it must be ensured that Qone8 is removed thoroughly and timely.

• Open Mozilla Firefox
• go to Tools
• click on Add-ons
• then Extensions, find Qone8 and click Uninstall.
• go back to Tools
• click on Options
• select General, then Startup.
• Now choose Show a blank page when Firefox Starts or set a certain website.