Level Quality Watcher

Posted: November 25, 2013

Threat Metric

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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.

Detection Count: The collective number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular malware threat. The detection count is calculated from infected PCs retrieved from diagnostic and scan log reports generated by SpyHunter.

Volume Count: Similar to the detection count, the Volume Count is specifically based on the number of confirmed and suspected threats infecting systems on a daily basis. High volume counts usually represent a popular threat but may or may not have infected a large number of systems. High detection count threats could lay dormant and have a low volume count. Criteria for Volume Count is relative to a daily detection count.

Trend Path: The Trend Path, utilizing an up arrow, down arrow or equal symbol, represents the level of recent movement of a particular threat. Up arrows represent an increase, down arrows represent a decline and the equal symbol represent no change to a threat's recent movement.

% Impact (Last 7 Days): This demonstrates a 7-day period change in the frequency of a malware threat infecting PCs. The percentage impact correlates directly to the current Trend Path to determine a rise or decline in the percentage.

Ranking:	14,573
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	98,818

First Seen:	November 25, 2013
Last Seen:	March 2, 2025
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

Level Quality Watcher is a system scanner that generates misleading system warnings to push you into purchasing its dishonestly-marketed premium software. Malware experts tend to find Level Quality Watcher distributed through methods that don't require the consent of the affected PC's user, particularly methods that include bundled software from suspicious websites offering free software downloads. Because Level Quality Watcher is a product that has no advantages for your computer, using anti-malware products for removing Level Quality Watcher and avoiding sites known to distribute Level Quality Watcher should be your only response to its installation.

Why the Quality of Your PC Goes Down with Level Quality Watcher Aboard

Level Quality Watcher rarely is installed with your full permission, and most victims of Level Quality Watcher infections describe themselves as experiencing Level Quality Watcher problems only after downloading an unrelated program from sites with poor security. The presence of a Qoobox folder or a continually-running Level Quality Watcher service is one of the most obvious symptoms of a Level Quality Watcher infection. Level Quality Watcher may be just as damaging to your PC as any threat, and malware researchers recommend watching for common attacks, such as:

Being unable to use other programs, particularly default Windows security products or major brands of anti-malware scanners.
Seeing your browser redirect itself to warning pages encouraging you to purchase Level Quality Watcher.
Experiencing recurring pop-up warnings about various system malfunctions that are attributed to problems that Level Quality Watcher may fix (but only after you purchase Level Quality Watcher).

Even though Level Quality Watcher's appearance is exactly that of a helpful application, malware experts label Level Quality Watcher as unsafe software that never should be purchased. Its lack of inclusion of normal uninstall methods (such as via the Windows Control Panel) is a particularly glaring sign of its true nature as a threat.

Watching the Due Extermination of Level Quality Watcher

Using safe Internet-surfing habits that eschew sites with long-held reputations for distributing harmful or unwanted software can offer some of the easiest and most obvious protection from Level Quality Watcher's current infection vectors. Since many software bundles able to distribute Level Quality Watcher and other unwanted and unsafe programs can be detected with appropriate file scanners, SpywareRemove.com malware experts also would suggest the use of anti-malware products in examining any installation files that you don't trust implicitly.

However, even the best defenses sometimes falter, and Level Quality Watcher should be considered a security issue in any case where Level Quality Watcher does happen to get onto your computer. Level Quality Watcher may not be responsive to normal software removal methods, but any updated and competent anti-malware product should be able to delete Level Quality Watcher without any substantial issues. Since Level Quality Watcher is a recently-identified PC threat as of late November 2013, updating your software before making an attempt at removing Level Quality Watcher strongly is advised, and can provide the edge that's needed to identify this threat properly.

Aliases

Artemis!448B93C4B63F [McAfee]MalSign.Adpeak.9A7 [AVG]AdPeak [Sophos]

Technical Details

File System Modifications

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The following files were created in the system:

%PROGRAMFILES%\Level Quality Watcher\v1.01\levelqualitywatcher64.exe

File name: levelqualitywatcher64.exe
Size: 516.09 KB (516096 bytes)
MD5: 8f3f4a354677b245cf2ad009696e73ad
Detection count: 91
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Level Quality Watcher\v1.01
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 14, 2014

%PROGRAMFILES%\Level Quality Watcher\v1.01\levelqualitywatcher32.exe

File name: levelqualitywatcher32.exe
Size: 418.8 KB (418808 bytes)
MD5: 29896d1d08ba1f9b0a85b41ab9876798
Detection count: 57
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Level Quality Watcher\v1.01
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 14, 2014

More files

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}Software\AppDataLow\Software\Level Quality WatcherSOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Features\8BA5CD9129705784F8B198C6A5C96EEASOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\8BA5CD9129705784F8B198C6A5C96EEASOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\UpgradeCodes\CEC06D4C97DE6AE478587BE7E822DC30SOFTWARE\LevelQualityWatcherSYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Level Quality WatcherHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Level Quality Watcher{19DC5AB8-0792-4875-8F1B-896C5A9CE6AE}

Additional Information

The following directories were created:

%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Level Quality Watcher%ProgramFiles%\Level Quality Watcher