Quick PC Booster
Posted: September 18, 2015
Threat Metric
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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: | 16,929 |
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Threat Level: | 1/10 |
Infected PCs: | 102,296 |
First Seen: | February 22, 2013 |
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Last Seen: | August 22, 2023 |
OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Quick PC Booster is an unreliable and suspicious program that will most likely be of no help to you. Security experts are unanimous that the users should not agree to install it. Quick PC Booster claims that it will improve the overall performance of your PC. Allegedly, it will fix registry errors, delete junk files and accelerate the startup of the Operating System (OS). It achieves almost nothing of the promised features. For this reason, some specialists add it to the long list of Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs). However, this classification is not entirely accurate for one simple reason – this questionable application is not free. It asks the user to buy the full license if he wishes to fix the errors, so a better term is "rogue optimization tool". The announced price is $50. However, when you click the purchase button, you will see that it actually costs $60, and you will be charged again after a year. When the program is so misleading, nothing guarantees that the people behind it will not use your credit card details for malicious purposes. There are good motives to believe that the scan results are intentionally exaggerated. They usually state that there are thousands of errors in the system of the users to encourage them to buy the full version of the fake optimization software. The official page of Quick PC Booster also provides inaccurate information. For example, you may see that the company that created this program is a partner of Microsoft. In fact, Quick PC Booster is not associated with the developers of Windows in any way. Instead of buying this useless application, you should use a real and powerful anti-malware product to delete it.
Technical Details
File System Modifications
Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.
The following files were created in the system:%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\QuickPCBooster.exe
File name: QuickPCBooster.exeSize: 15.42 MB (15428888 bytes)
MD5: 170889cb645649e7988b1e041d299a31
Detection count: 22,123
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 23, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\QuickPCBoosterTrays.exe
File name: QuickPCBoosterTrays.exeSize: 1.96 MB (1965848 bytes)
MD5: 8796038650c912fac30f1da3ac57ec8a
Detection count: 10,621
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: April 9, 2020
C:\Program Files\Quick PC Booster\StartApps.exe
File name: StartApps.exeSize: 476.67 KB (476672 bytes)
MD5: 88316a67bdf883684b3292f5b28903fe
Detection count: 7,457
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: C:\Program Files\Quick PC Booster\StartApps.exe
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: November 26, 2021
%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\QPCBPerformance.exe
File name: QPCBPerformance.exeSize: 942.83 KB (942832 bytes)
MD5: 412af24a4b056b1168fe8ccbeabfa2b7
Detection count: 7,202
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: May 8, 2022
%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\StartApps.exe
File name: StartApps.exeSize: 377.85 KB (377856 bytes)
MD5: 66361098916911d71c4bb60948b743d5
Detection count: 6,811
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: October 23, 2018
%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\QuickPCBoosterTrays.exe
File name: QuickPCBoosterTrays.exeSize: 1.73 MB (1735424 bytes)
MD5: b22867d8b188f07cce716d464a56ff87
Detection count: 6,469
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: October 23, 2018
%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\QuickPCBooster.exe
File name: QuickPCBooster.exeSize: 14.01 MB (14014744 bytes)
MD5: 53774c7e1ded153643f46bab5729f0d9
Detection count: 5,298
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 26, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\QuickPCBoosterTrays.exe
File name: QuickPCBoosterTrays.exeSize: 1.76 MB (1763608 bytes)
MD5: 74b877b7e4a7a5ef2c9d4c58f119b8f1
Detection count: 2,394
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: February 25, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\StartApps.exe
File name: StartApps.exeSize: 342.01 KB (342016 bytes)
MD5: a0f5145df9ae16b0222bde27adb69748
Detection count: 642
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: April 10, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\QuickPCBooster.exe
File name: QuickPCBooster.exeSize: 15.58 MB (15583512 bytes)
MD5: 166221ae141b291aa9b6a7e888bf75ce
Detection count: 290
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: April 10, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\QuickPCBooster.exe
File name: QuickPCBooster.exeSize: 14.15 MB (14158104 bytes)
MD5: 8f1f44c9c3baa5ce4e68255190c7bb6f
Detection count: 267
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: April 10, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\StartApps.exe
File name: StartApps.exeSize: 344.06 KB (344064 bytes)
MD5: 589ac88467959612d0759f37ff14dcf7
Detection count: 35
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: May 29, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\StartApps.exe
File name: StartApps.exeSize: 343.04 KB (343040 bytes)
MD5: 43809e4f5e489fde66afc25ee21489f4
Detection count: 30
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: March 21, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\StartApps.exe
File name: StartApps.exeSize: 429.56 KB (429568 bytes)
MD5: 082258840375470ec55e165ecd6efecd
Detection count: 26
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: June 5, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\StartApps.exe
File name: StartApps.exeSize: 426.49 KB (426496 bytes)
MD5: 4a1d8680680518e291a1f2cacd3f0282
Detection count: 23
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: April 24, 2013
%PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster\QuickPCBooster.exe
File name: QuickPCBooster.exeSize: 15.61 MB (15610136 bytes)
MD5: 3b12b6c2be2d0d200ffe2ebbfad3979b
Detection count: 23
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Path: %PROGRAMFILES%\Quick PC Booster
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: June 5, 2013
C:\Program Files\quick pc booster\quickpcbooster.exe
File name: C:\Program Files\quick pc booster\quickpcbooster.exeMD5: 170889cb645649e7988b1e041d299a31
File type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
UpdatesDll.dll
File name: UpdatesDll.dllFile type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
UpdatesDll_s.dll
File name: UpdatesDll_s.dllFile type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
QPCBoosterCMenu.dll
File name: QPCBoosterCMenu.dllFile type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Group: Malware file
C:\Program Files\Quick PC Booster\uninst.exe
File name: C:\Program Files\Quick PC Booster\uninst.exeFile type: Executable File
Mime Type: unknown/exe
Group: Malware file
Registry Modifications
CLSID{0AA1FAD7-5502-4214-B5FA-1AD326799F15}{7311F52E-D362-4061-A9CD-BDB57408A729}{CBEDF010-4AE0-4D53-8993-6062FAEDA51A}File name without pathQuick PC Booster.lnkHKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Classes\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\OCPCtxMenuSOFTWARE\Classes\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\QPCBCtxMenuSOFTWARE\Classes\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\OCPCtxMenuSOFTWARE\Classes\lnkfile\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers\QPCBCtxMenuSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\quickpcbooster.comSoftware\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\www.quickpcbooster.comSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\Quick PC Booster IdleSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\Quick PC Booster UpdatesSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\Quick PC Booster64 ScanSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\Quick PC Booster64 startupsSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\QuickPCBooster.exeSoftware\Quick PC BoosterHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\[APPLICATION]\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall..{Uninstaller}Quick PC Booster
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