Price Metar
from installCore
What is Price Metar?
The Pricemeter ad-supported program injects advertisements with its affiliate ad providers in order to serve a number of ad types including banner, inline text links and popups.
"Pricemeter provides you with services which are intended to enhance your online shopping experience, showing you same products or different stores with cheaper prices and exposing you to coupons allowing you to enjoy exclusive discounts when checking out products ("Offers"). The services are based on an innovative method of behavioral advertising which enables to offer you products, via browser add-on, banners or ads, based on your observed preferences while protecting your privacy."
It utilizes the InstallCore download manager. This is the same product as the DealPly from DealPly Technologies Ltd.
About (from installCore)
Since PriceMeter is a free service, it is possible that it was offered to you during the installation of one of our partners' programs or applications to your computer. PriceMeter offers you an easy, friendly and safe way to find the best deals online, allowing you to save money and time when buying the products or s... Read more
Overview
- Possible malware installed by this program
- Starts automatically
- Installed as part of a co-bundle
- Displays unwanted advertisements
- Many experts agree, if you don't use it you should remove it!
Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in Price Metar.
| PriceMeterUpdateVer.exe (1245632d18b5337eb39be78659c0936d) has been flagged by the following 30 scanners: |
| Anti-Virus software | Version | Detection |
| Lavasoft Ad-Aware |
807 |
Adware.DealPly.Q |
| Agnitum Outpost |
7.1.1 |
Riskware.Agent |
| AVG |
2015.0.3285 |
Generic5 |
| Avira |
7.11.185.228 |
Adware/DealPly.Q.3 |
| AVware |
1.5.0.21 |
Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT |
| Baidu-International |
4.0.3.14423 |
Adware.Win32.PriceMeter.45 |
| Bitdefender |
1.0.20.1620 |
Adware.DealPly.Q |
| CAT-QuickHeal |
11.14.14.00 |
Adware.DealPly.r8 (Not a Virus) |
| Dr.Web |
9.0.0.0324 |
Adware.Downware.8659 |
| Emsisoft Anti-Malware |
8.14.11.20.02 |
Adware.DealPly.Q |
| ESET-NOD32 |
8.10726 |
a variant of Win32/DealPly.S |
| F-Secure |
11.2014-20-11_5 |
Adware.DealPly.Q |
| G Data |
14.11.24 |
Adware.DealPly |
| K7 AntiVirus |
13.185.14021 |
Trojan |
| K7GW |
13.185.14022 |
Trojan ( 0049c8161 ) |
| Kaspersky |
14.0.0.2920 |
not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.DealPly |
| McAfee |
5600.6941 |
Adware-PMeter |
| McAfee-GW-Edition |
7.6941 |
BehavesLike.Win32.Nofear.dh |
| MicroWorld-eScan |
15.0.0.972 |
Adware.DealPly.Q |
| NANO AntiVirus |
0.28.6.63362 |
Trojan.Win32.Delphi.dduzsj |
| nProtect |
14.11.14.01 |
Adware.DealPly.Q |
| Panda Antivirus |
14.11.20.02 |
Trj/CI.A |
| Sophos |
4.98 |
DealPly Updater |
| Symantec |
11/20/2014 rev. 5 |
WS.Reputation |
| Tencent |
1.0.0.1 |
Win32.Adware.Dealply.Dvfx |
| Trend Micro |
10.465.23 |
ADW_PRICEMETER |
| TrendMicro-HouseCall |
7.2.113 |
ADW_PRICEMETER |
| Vba32 AntiVirus |
3.12.26.3 |
AdWare.DealPly |
| VIPRE Antivirus |
34794 |
Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT |
| Zillya |
2.0.0.1982 |
Adware.DealPly.Win32.7 |
| pricemeterw.exe (269d066d41b631b1f22936248e80354f) has been flagged by the following 6 scanners: |
| Anti-Virus software | Software version | Detection |
| AVG |
13.0.0.3169 |
MalSign.Primet.C78 |
| Malwarebytes |
1.75.0001 |
PUP.Optional.PriceMeter.A |
| Symantec |
20131.1.5.61 |
Adware.DealPly |
| Trend Micro |
9.740-1012 |
ADW_METER |
| TrendMicro-HouseCall |
9.700-1001 |
ADW_METER |
| VIPRE Antivirus |
28452 |
Adware.DealPly |
| pricemeter.exe (5c3e9e6439b4a813d4073ba808b049b5) has been flagged by the following 6 scanners: |
| Anti-Virus software | Software version | Detection |
| AVG |
13.0.0.3169 |
MalSign.Primet.C78 |
| Malwarebytes |
1.75.0001 |
PUP.Optional.PriceMeter.A |
| Symantec |
20131.1.5.61 |
Adware.DealPly |
| Trend Micro |
9.740-1012 |
ADW_METER |
| TrendMicro-HouseCall |
9.700-1001 |
ADW_METER |
| VIPRE Antivirus |
28458 |
Adware.DealPly |
| pricemeterd.exe (620f502e8195470588bae8d474385179) has been flagged by the following 6 scanners: |
| Anti-Virus software | Software version | Detection |
| AVG |
13.0.0.3169 |
MalSign.Primet.C78 |
| Malwarebytes |
1.75.0001 |
PUP.Optional.PriceMeter.A |
| Symantec |
20131.1.5.61 |
Adware.DealPly |
| Trend Micro |
9.740-1012 |
ADW_METER |
| TrendMicro-HouseCall |
9.700-1001 |
ADW_METER |
| VIPRE Antivirus |
28488 |
Adware.DealPly |
View all 48 all detections
Price Metar has been found to be bundled with 3rd party software. If you have not purposefully installed this, you should be safe uninstalling it.
Program details
Displayed publisher: Price Meter
URL: support.pricemeter.net
Help link: www.pricemeter.net
Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\local\pricemeter
Uninstaller: "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\PriceMeter\uninst.exe" /uninstall
Estimated size: 8.42 MB
Files installed by Price Metar
| Program executable: | pricemeter.exe |
| Name: | PriceMeter |
| Path: | C:\users\user\appdata\local\pricemeter\pricemeter.exe |
| MD5: | 64062e7d21b23276089320906f9bcac2 |
Additional files:
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libcef.dll - Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) Dynamic Link Library
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icudt.dll (by The ICU Project) - International Components for Unicode (ICU Data DLL)
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(Malware detected) pricemeterd.exe (by PriceMeter)
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(Malware detected) pricemeterw.exe (by PriceMeter) - PriceMeterW
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uninst.exe - Price Metar
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tmp.exe (by Igor Pavlov) - 7-Zip (7z Console SFX)
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(Malware detected) PriceMeterUpdateVer.exe
Behaviors exhibited
4 Scheduled Tasks
- PriceMeterUpdateVer.exe is scheduled as a task named 'At5' (runs daily at 4:33 PM).
- pricemeterw.exe is scheduled as a task named 'pricemeterwatcher' (runs daily at 23:42).
- pricemeterd.exe is scheduled as a task named 'pricemeterdownloader' (runs on registration).
- pricemeter.exe is scheduled as a task named 'pricemetertask' (runs daily at 23:42).
Startup File (User Run)
- pricemeterw.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'PriceMeterW' and executes as "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\PriceMeter\pricemeterw.exe".
How do I remove Price Metar?
You can uninstall Price Metar from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
- On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
- Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
- When you find the program Price Metar (remove only), click it, and then do one of the following:
- Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
- Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
- Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Price Metar.
- If for some reason uninstallation fails, please install Microsoft's uninstall fixer utility which will help fix problems with programs that can't be uninstalled at support.microsoft.com.
OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 48%
Win Server 2003 0%
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WHEN IT STARTS
Auto-starting? Yes
(Found in the run registry)
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USER ACTIONS
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Uninstall it 70%
Keep it 30%
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Windows
Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
| Windows 7 |
55.82% |
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| Windows 10 |
29.67% |
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| Windows XP |
10.53% |
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| Windows Vista |
3.83% |
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| Windows Server 2003 |
0.16% |
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Which OS releases does it run on? |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
20.35% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
17.15% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
10.58% |
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| Windows 8.1 |
9.46% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
8.01% |
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| Windows 8 |
7.05% |
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Geography
35.94% of installs come from Brazil
Which countries install it?
| Brazil |
35.94% |
| United States |
17.64% |
| India |
5.99% |
| France |
4.99% |
| United Kingdom |
3.99% |
| Germany |
3.66% |
| Japan |
3.33% |
| Italy |
3.16% |
| Canada |
3.00% |
| Russia |
2.16% |
| Poland |
2.00% |
| Spain |
1.50% |
| Turkey |
1.33% |
| Belgium |
1.16% |
PC manufacturers
What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
| Hewlett-Packard |
23.87% |
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| Acer |
22.36% |
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| Dell |
14.82% |
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| ASUS |
12.06% |
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| Samsung |
8.04% |
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| GIGABYTE |
4.77% |
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| Lenovo |
4.77% |
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| Toshiba |
3.52% |
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| Intel |
3.02% |
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| American Megatrends |
2.01% |
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| Sony |
0.75% |
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Common models |
| HP Pavilion 15 Notebook P... |
4.27% |
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| Positivo Positivo M... |
3.79% |
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| Acer Aspire E1-572 |
2.84% |
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| Dell Inspiron 3521 |
2.37% |
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| Acer Aspire E1-571 |
2.37% |
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| HP G42 Notebook PC |
2.37% |
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