Should I remove QuickCet?

What percent of users and experts removed it?

81% remove it19% keep it

Overall Sentiment

Bad

What do people think about it?

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How common is it?

Reach 0.0001%

Versions

Version	Distribution
5.6.0.0	100.00%

QuickCet

from iconrate.com

Remove QuickCet by iconrate.com

What is QuickCet? (from iconrate.com)

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Overview

QuickCet is a software program developed by iconrate.com. It adds registry entry for the current user which will allow the program to automatically start each time it is rebooted. The primary executable is named QuickCet.exe. A majority of users end up uninstalling this less than a week of it being installed. Relative to the overall usage of those who have this installed, most are running it on Windows 7 (SP1). While about 80% of users of QuickCet come from the United States, it is also popular in Canada.

Malware detected in the program
Starts automatically
The experts agree, you should remove it!

Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in QuickCet.

QuickCet.exe (d630f2d985e5fed43fc41d5a9430fbdc) has been flagged by the following 30 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Version	Detection
Agnitum Outpost	7.1.1	Adware.Sancmed
AhnLab-V3	2013.05.14	Win-Trojan/ASD.variant
Avira AntiVir	7.11.78.62	ADWARE/SanMedia.Gen2
avast!	2014.9-130615	MSIL:Adware-A [Adw]
AVG	2014.0.3468	Dropper.Generic6
Bitdefender	1.0.20.830	Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.66846
CAT-QuickHeal	6.13.12.00	Adware.SanctionedMedia (Not a Virus)
Comodo Security	16250	ApplicUnwnt
Dr.Web	9.0.0.0166	Trojan.DownLoader8.48112
Emsisoft Anti-Malware	8.13.06.15.05	Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.66846
ESET-NOD32	7.8329	a variant of MSIL/Adware.SanctionedMedia.A
Fortinet FortiGate	6/15/2013	Adware/Fam.NB
F-Secure	11.2013-15-06_7	Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.66846
G Data	13.6.22	Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.66846
IKARUS anti.virus	t3scan.2.0.0.0	AdWare.MSIL
K7 AntiVirus	13.166.8682	Riskware
Kaspersky	14.0.0.3210	not-a-virus:AdWare.MSIL.Sancmed
Kingsoft AntiVirus	331020.49267	Win32.Troj.Genome.(kcloud)
McAfee	5600.7106	RDN/Generic PUP.x!nu
McAfee-GW-Edition	7.7106	RDN/Generic PUP.x!nu
Microsoft Security Essentials	1.163.1557.0	Adware:MSIL/SanctionedMedia
MicroWorld-eScan	14.0.0.498	Gen:Variant.Adware.Kazy.66846
NANO AntiVirus	0.24.0.52214	Trojan.Win32..bocgme
Panda Antivirus	13.06.15.05	Generic Malware
Sophos	4.89	Sanctioned Media
Symantec	6/15/2013 rev. 7	WS.Reputation
Trend Micro	10.465.15	TROJ_SPNR.29CM13
TrendMicro-HouseCall	7.2.166	TROJ_SPNR.29CM13
Vba32 AntiVirus	3.12.22.0	TScope.Trojan.MSIL
VIPRE Antivirus	17722	SanctionedMedia (fs)

View all 30 all detections

Program details

Displayed publisher: QuickCet

URL: www.iconrate.com

Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\Local\QuickCet\QuickCet

Uninstaller: "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\QuickCet\QuickCet\QuickCet.exe" --uninstall

Files installed by QuickCet

Program executable:	QuickCet.exe (Malware detected)
	QuickCet
Path:	C:\users\user\appdata\Local\QuickCet\QuickCet\QuickCet.exe
MD5:	d630f2d985e5fed43fc41d5a9430fbdc

Additional files:

NDde.dll (by Brian Gideon) - NDde
(Malware detected) QuickCet.exe - QuickCet

Behaviors exhibited

Startup File (User Run)

QuickCet.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'QuickCet' and executes as "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\QuickCet\QuickCet\QuickCet.exe".

How do I remove QuickCet?

You can uninstall QuickCet 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 QuickCet, 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 QuickCet.
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.