UpdateQuick.com

UpdateQuick.com is a site that delivers some attacks to install threats and unwanted programs. Just as most PC users would assume from the site's Web address, UpdateQuick.com disguises these attacks as software updates, which may be formatted to resemble updates to your media player, to Flash or to other, common media-related platforms. Like with all infection vectors confirmed to play a part in distributing threats, contact with UpdateQuick.com always should be followed by a prompt anti-malware scan of your PC, and you should avoid any downloads offered by UpdateQuick.com or similarly untrustworthy domains, no matter how legitimate their pop-up links may appear.

Updating Your Video Player Quickly... into Threat Problems

While malware experts needed very little time to verify UpdateQuick.com as a threatening domain, UpdateQuick.com also is a domain that was recently registered (less than a month ago, as of late February 2014). The brevity of UpdateQuick.com's current ownership has resulted in a great many anti-malware companies failing to classify UpdateQuick.com appropriately. As of this article's writing, only one other company has been confirmed to detect UpdateQuick.com as a risky website, despite the relatively obvious nature of its hosted attacks.

UpdateQuick.com is an attack site, or a site that uses social engineering ploys and/or software exploits to install threatening software onto visitors' computers. While UpdateQuick.com claims to offer a codec package that will allow your movie player of choice to have enhanced compatibility with updated movie file formats, UpdateQuick.com actually installs nothing of the sort, and accepting its update package will infect your PC. The nature of the threat under distribution by UpdateQuick.com is under analysis, but malware experts often see attacks like UpdateQuick.com's own responsible for distributing system optimization products. These subtypes of threats have histories of hijacking Web browsers, blocking other programs and, above all else, trying to mislead you about the overall health of your PC.

How to Update without the Risks of an UpdateQuick.com Attack

Codecs often are necessary for viewing high-quality movies, but malware researchers recommend that you acquire their updates from more trustworthy sources than a generic 'update' or movie site, such as a domain that specializes in codec distribution. Always research the history of a site before accepting downloads from it, always disable browser content that could be utilized to strike your computer, and use anti-malware security products to deflect random redirects towards UpdateQuick.com, and other domains of an equally hostile nature.

Even though UpdateQuick.com tries to install its payload by asking you to download and launch its 'video update' yourself, malware researchers sometimes see these attacks formatted in a multi-layered fashion. Some attacks from UpdateQuick.com also may include ambiguous ways to infect your PC, such as exploit kits that search for security vulnerabilities automatically. Because of this general risk, which is applicable to any verified contagion website, malware researchers find it preferable to scan your PC after any contact with such a website as UpdateQuick.com, rather than to ignore an encounter with UpdateQuick.com until the symptoms of threat attacks start to appear.