Quick-seeker.com
Threat Scorecard
EnigmaSoft Threat Scorecard
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| Ranking: | 5,035 |
| Threat Level: | 50 % (Medium) |
| Infected Computers: | 2,439 |
| First Seen: | January 23, 2014 |
| Last Seen: | September 20, 2023 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Quick-seeker.com is a low quality search engine and advertising platform that is often associated with Potentially Unwanted Programs. The main purpose of Quick-seeker.com is to generate profits using your computer, despite the fact that Quick-seeker.com is actually marketed as a useful or entertaining website. Typically low quality websites like Quick-seeker.com and their associated PUPs are marketed as ways to carry out online searches more efficiently, find better online deals or gain access to a wide range of perks and add-ons for your Web browser in the form of toolbars. However, they rarely deliver on this promise. That is because they are usually designed to make money through computer users while foregoing almost entirely any useful service they may supposedly deliver. In case your Web browser is showing symptoms that may be related to Quick-seeker.com, such as Quick-seeker.com redirects, pop-ups or changes of your Web browser's default websites to Quick-seeker.com, this indicates the presence of a PUP that should be removed at once.
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Cutting Quick-seeker.com in the Bud
PUPs associated with Quick-seeker.com may be removed by uninstalling them using your Web browser's or Windows' program removal features. However, once uninstalled, content associated with Quick-seeker.com may still remain behind, causing error messages, performance problems or even allowing the PUP associated with Quick-seeker.com to be reinstalled. Because of this, security analysts recommend running of a full scan of the affected computer using the help of a fully updated security program once the Quick-seeker.com PUP has been removed.
Preventing PUP Infections Linked to Quick-seeker.com
Like with most PUPs, unwanted components associated with Quick-seeker.com may be bundled with freeware programs. You can prevent their installation on your computer by following the installation process of any alternate software with good and refuse the installation of any software you do not recognize or that is unrelated to your new program. In most cases, Custom Installation allows to select only the components you want.
SpyHunter Detects & Remove Quick-seeker.com
File System Details
| # | File Name | MD5 |
Detections
Detections: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on
infected computers as reported by SpyHunter.
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | file.exe | 168c61527f1b971f704b92182d5d677f | 0 |
Registry Details
Directories
Quick-seeker.com may create the following directory or directories:
| %Homedrive%\QuickSeeker20130820 |
| %LOCALAPPDATA%\Quickseeker |
URLs
Quick-seeker.com may call the following URLs:
| quick-seeker.com |
