What is Quantum Look?

Quantum Look – is a program that comes to your computer in the form of an extension to the browser Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. It penetrates to the PC without the user’s consent. Quantum Look is not a virus, but if this program has come, it can deliver a lot of inconvenience and problems. Quantum Look distributes promotional content and collaborates with some online shops. It displays advertising banners and coupons that inform the user about the presence of discounts on various products. In fact, the purpose of the developers – is to make money. Most of the offers are not real. Also Quantum Look distributes its files all over your computer and creates entries in the registry. Because of this removal will be difficult. If you find Quantum Look on your PC, then you should immediately remove it.

Quantum Look Ads

How Quantum Look gets on your PC?

Malicious software infects a computer without the user’s consent. Usually, Quantum Look comes with free applications and programs that you can download from popular free sites such as download.com, Softpedia, Freewarefiles, Shareware, Soft32 and many others. These sites tend to create their own download managers that implement a potentially unwanted program. Users are not attentive during installation, so the computer can be infected. Always follow the important rules. Read user agreement. Take your time. Do not press the “Next” button, if you are not sure that the program will not harm your computer. Select advanced installation type. Do not settle for questionable deals and carefully follow the installation process. If Quantum Look has already penetrated to the PC, you can use our instructions to remove it immediately.

How to remove Quantum Look from your computer?

To uninstall Quantum Look remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Quantum Look in their database. You can try to use them for removing Quantum Look.

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You can try both of these products to remove Quantum Look

Or uninstall Quantum Look manually.

Removing from Control Panel

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Control Panel.
  3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find Quantum Look.
  5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Then Control Panel.
  3. Click Uninstall a Program.
  4. Find Quantum Look and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

  1. Open the Menu.
  2. Click Search.
  3. After that click Apps.
  4. Then Control Panel.
  5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
  6. Find Quantum Look, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

After that remove Quantum Look from your browser.

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Push Alt + F.
  3. Click Tools.
  4. Choose Extensions.
  5. Find Quantum Look.
  6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
  3. Choose Quantum Look.
  4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

  1. Open IE.
  2. Push Alt + T.
  3. Click Manage Add-ons.
  4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
  5. Click Disable Quantum Look.
  6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
  7. Click Remove button.
  8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Remove following registry entries:


no information

Then remove following files:


Quantum Look.dll

And following folders


%PROGRAMFILES%Quantum Look

Written by Rami Douafi

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