Remove Price Fountain Ads from Chrome/Firefox/IE

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Price Fountain is an application created for users keen on online shopping as it promises to help them save money when buying goods from web stores. The application claims that it will only provide you with relevant deals, which will be determined according to your online searches. This means that while you are viewing an item, Price Fountain will present you with coupons and offers for the same item at a lower price. If you think that this is too good to be true, you are right. Price Fountain is classified as adware, meaning that it will probably not live up to its promises. What the application will do for certain, however, is to display tons of pop-up ads on every single web page you enter. You will certainly not enjoy that as Price Fountain ads are intrusive and will prevent you from doing your regular online activity. What is more, they will expose you to threats, which is the main reason why you should not click them and erase the application generating them.

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How did I get infected with?

Most adware programs are not officially represented, but of course there some exceptions. Price Fountain is such an exception as the application is promoted at pricefountain.com. You can easily navigate through the website to learn more about Price Fountain and to discover that no download option is provided. Do not be surprised, this is another thing typical for adware. Such applications usually reach the targeted computer with the help of software bundles. This refers to groups of adware or other dubious programs that are attached to free apps and get installed as additional. In many of the cases users are informed about these additional programs during the setup process. Unfortunately, most of them tend to do it in a hurry and skip important information. It was probably what you did too if you are now seeing Price Fountain ads. Remember to be careful in future to avoid similar problems.

Why are these ads dangerous?

It would have been great if you could save money using Price Fountain, but this is not the case. You better do a research and find another online shopping app because Price Fountain is certainly not a good choice. The ads displayed by this application will probably present you with more deals for discount products. Nevertheless, do not let yourself be convinced that what you are seeing is harmless genuine ads. Price Fountain ads are neither decent nor safe as they promote third-party content. Whenever you click such an ad, you will be redirected to a third-party website that belongs to some of the sponsors of Price Fountain. No information about these sponsors is disclosed, so there is a great chance that they are cyber criminals. Thus, if you land on a malicious web page, your system will get infected with who knows what parasites. The best you can in this situation is to remove Price Fountain from your PC and thus stop the appearance of the annoying ads.

How Can I Remove Price Fountain Ads?

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Price Fountain infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. Please, consider to print this guide or have another computer at your disposal. You will NOT need any USB sticks or CDs.

STEP 1: Uninstall Price Fountain from your Add\Remove Programs

STEP 2: Delete Price Fountain from Chrome, Firefox or IE

STEP 3: Permanently Remove Price Fountain from the windows registry.

STEP 1 : Uninstall Price Fountain from Your Computer

Simultaneously press the Windows Logo Button and then “R” to open the Run Command

Type “Appwiz.cpl

Locate the Price Fountain program and click on uninstall/change. To facilitate the search you can sort the programs by date. review the most recent installed programs first. In general you should remove all unknown programs.

STEP 2 : Remove Price Fountain from Chrome, Firefox or IE

Remove from Google Chrome

  • In the Main Menu, select Tools—> Extensions
  • Remove any unknown extension by clicking on the little recycle bin
  • If you are not able to delete the extension then navigate to C:\Users\”computer name“\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\and review the folders one by one.
  • Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

  • If you are using the latest chrome version you need to do the following
  • go to settings – Add person

  • choose a preferred name.

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  • then go back and remove person 1
  • Chrome should be malware free now

Remove from Mozilla Firefox

  • Open Firefox
  • Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
  • Disable and remove any unknown add on
  • Open the Firefox’s Help Menu

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  • Then Troubleshoot information
  • Click on Reset Firefox

Remove from Internet Explorer

  • Open IE
  • On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
  • Go to Toolbars and Extensions
  • Disable any suspicious extension.
  • If the disable button is gray, you need to go to your Windows Registry and delete the corresponding CLSID
  • On the Upper Right Corner of Internet Explorer Click on the Gear Icon.
  • Click on Internet options

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  • Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset.

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  • Check the “Delete Personal Settings Tab” and then Reset

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  • Close IE

Permanently Remove Price Fountain Leftovers

To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify any registry leftovers or temporary files.

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