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Hello readers. Hope you are doing ok. Did you just spot something called HQ-Video-Pro-2.1cV02.11<\/strong> on your system? HQ-Video-Pro-2.1cV02.11 appears to be a variant of CrossRider<\/strong> that I’ve written about before. If the HQ-Video-Pro-2.1cV02.11 adware is installed on your machine, you will notice ads labeled Visual Search Results<\/strong> and\u00a0Powered by HQ-Video-Pro-2.1cV02.11<\/strong> in Google’s search results. I’ll show how to remove HQ-Video-Pro-2.1cV02.11 in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.<\/p>\n

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Here it is in Firefox’ add-on menu:<\/p>\n

\"HQ-Video-Pro-2.1cV02.11<\/a><\/p>\n

HQ-Video-Pro-2.1cV02.11 is distributed by a tactic called bundling<\/strong>. Bundling means that a piece of software is included in other software’s installers. When I first found HQ-Video-Pro-2.1cV02.11, it was bundled with a piece of software called FastPlayer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Generally, you can avoid bundled software such as HQ-Video-Pro-2.1cV02.11 by being careful when installing software and declining the bundled offers in the installer.<\/p>\n

When I find some new bundled software I always upload it to VirusTotal<\/a> to verify if the anti-malware software there detect anything suspicious. The detection rate is 7\/54. Some of the detection names for HQ-Video-Pro-2.1cV02.11 are Trojan.NSIS.GoogUpdate.dt<\/strong>, PUP.Optional.HQVideo.A<\/strong> and Crossrider (fs)<\/strong>. The files are signed by “Radon Battery Technologies<\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

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Removing HQ-Video-Pro-2.1cV02.11<\/strong> is pretty easy with FreeFixer<\/a>. The\u00a0screen capture that should help you along the way: You might have to restart your machine to complete the removal.\u00a0\"HQ-Video-Pro-2.1cV02.11<\/a><\/p>\n

Hope that helped you to figure out how to do the removal.<\/p>\n

Any idea how HQ-Video-Pro-2.1cV02.11 was installed on your computer? Please let me and the readers know by posting a comments. Thanks!<\/p>\n

Hope you found this useful and thanks you for reading.<\/p>\n

Update 2014-11-04<\/strong>: Today another variant was released called\u00a0HQ-Video-Pro-2.1cV03.11<\/strong>. I guess we will see more variants where just the version number is increased:<\/p>\n