Price Metar

Price Metar

Known Generic

by installCore

What is Price Metar?

Price Metar is software application developed by installCore. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 55.82% of installations running this operating system. Price Metar's installer is typically 8.00 MB in size and installs around 48 files. The most common release is 1.0.6.3 with 46.25% of all installations currently using this version.

Price Metar is most popular in Brazil with 35.94% of installations residing in this country.

Price Metar adds 4 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About Price Metar?

Pricemeter is a software program that incorporates advertisements from its affiliate ad providers to display various ad types, including banners, inline text links, and pop-ups. The program aims to enhance the online shopping experience by offering users access to products from different stores at lower prices and providing exclusive discounts through coupons. Pricemeter uses innovative behavioral advertising methods to personalize product offerings while protecting user privacy. The software is powered by the InstallCore download manager and is developed by DealPly Technologies Ltd.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Price Metar.

PriceMeterUpdateVer.exe (MD5: 1245632d18b5337eb39be78659c0936d) has been flagged by 31 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Adware.DealPly.Q
Agnitum Outpost Riskware.Agent
AVG Generic5
Avira Adware/DealPly.Q.3
AVware Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.PriceMeter.45
Bitdefender Adware.DealPly.Q
CAT-QuickHeal Adware.DealPly.r8 (Not a Virus)
Dr.Web Adware.Downware.8659
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Adware.DealPly.Q
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/DealPly.S
F-Secure Adware.DealPly.Q
G Data Adware.DealPly
K7 AntiVirus Trojan
K7GW Trojan ( 0049c8161 )
Kaspersky not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.DealPly
McAfee Adware-PMeter
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Nofear.dh
MicroWorld-eScan Adware.DealPly.Q
NANO AntiVirus Trojan.Win32.Delphi.dduzsj
nProtect Adware.DealPly.Q
Panda Antivirus Trj/CI.A
Sophos DealPly Updater
Symantec WS.Reputation
Tencent Win32.Adware.Dealply.Dvfx
Trend Micro ADW_PRICEMETER
TrendMicro-HouseCall ADW_PRICEMETER
Vba32 AntiVirus AdWare.DealPly
VIPRE Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Zillya Adware.DealPly.Win32.7
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.PriceMeter.A
pricemeterw.exe (MD5: 269d066d41b631b1f22936248e80354f) has been flagged by 6 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
AVG MalSign.Primet.C78
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.PriceMeter.A
Symantec Adware.DealPly
Trend Micro ADW_METER
TrendMicro-HouseCall ADW_METER
VIPRE Antivirus Adware.DealPly
pricemeterd.exe (MD5: 620f502e8195470588bae8d474385179) has been flagged by 6 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
AVG MalSign.Primet.C78
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.PriceMeter.A
Symantec Adware.DealPly
Trend Micro ADW_METER
TrendMicro-HouseCall ADW_METER
VIPRE Antivirus Adware.DealPly
pricemeter.exe (MD5: 5c3e9e6439b4a813d4073ba808b049b5) has been flagged by 6 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
AVG MalSign.Primet.C78
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.PriceMeter.A
Symantec Adware.DealPly
Trend Micro ADW_METER
TrendMicro-HouseCall ADW_METER
VIPRE Antivirus Adware.DealPly

Software Behaviors

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 Entries

Registry entries:
  • 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".

Software Details

URL:
https://support.pricemeter.net
Support:
https://www.pricemeter.net
Installation path:
C:\users\user\appdata\local\pricemeter
Uninstaller:
"C:\users\user\appdata\Local\PriceMeter\uninst.exe" /uninstall
Size:
8.00 MB
Language:
English

Price Metar Executable Details

Primary executable:
pricemeter.exe
Name:
Price Metar
Path:
C:\users\user\appdata\local\pricemeter\pricemeter.exe
MD5:
5c3e9e6439b4a813d4073ba808b049b5
SHA-1:
–
SHA-256:
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Files installed by Price Metar
File Type Filename MD5
DLL
556b8a0aa32577a3ddbd688fd22f2012
DLL
78da6ed3e69db8bf17ffabac15dd264e
DLL
40f033f125dedeb6a761dad8e442379a
DLL
c34f70fcaeeebc5a33bb9ccac1bbbee7
DLL
6eb5bad240a6da22cc3242217685b392
DLL
965b4dbda539c3cb5af9c3e26d3b9a2b
DLL
ebda6aceec843e31bdf6350deb86d32e
DLL
e8bb64f897590c29d7e3d49d40f8c86e
DLL
9e7221dc7ff5af09b8ca67a323eec5f0
DLL
b9d5b8770cc3476a9be748d6935be734