Remove Price-Hipo Ads from Chrome/FF/IE

 

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Price-Hipo is considered adware and a potentially unwanted program. The application claims to help you find bargains and deals by presenting you with coupons, showing you sales, comparing products, and whatnot. However, that’s not all it does. If you leave it running around your system, you’ll soon live to regret it. Price-Hipo not only bombards you with a constant array of pop-up advertisements and thus annoys you to no end, but also presents a serious security risk. Don’t wait around for the program to do its damages before you delete it. Get rid of it as soon as it makes its presence known.

How did I get infected with?

There are many ways Price-Hipo can infect your computer. Some of the most common ones include the use of freeware, spam email attachments, corrupted websites and corrupted links. The application manages to trick you into agreeing to its installation while at the same time you have no idea you’re letting it in your system. That’s because Price-Hipo prays on your distraction. Generally, users are most distracted during freeware installations. In their haste to finish the process quicker, they agree to the terms and conditions without reading them. That’s how they get stuck with adware such as Price-Hipo.

Why are these ads dangerous?

Price-Hipo is an ad-supported program. That means that its existence relies on its ability to generate pay-per-click revenue. That’s what it was created to do, and why it floods you with the never-ending waterfall of ads. After all, every ad you are tricked into clicking on, is profit for the unknown third parties behind the application. However, the flood of frustrating pop-ups, won’t start immediately after Price-Hipo’s installation. The application is designed to spend some time monitoring your browsing activities, so as to better understand your likes and dislikes. That way it knows which ads will have a better shot at sparking your interest and resulting in a click. The issue here is that Price-Hipo doesn’t just monitor, but also catalogs all of the information it has gathered on you, and then sends it to the aforementioned unknown individuals. Don’t take such unnecessary risks and get rid of the program as soon as you realize it has infected your PC.

How Can I Remove Price-Hipo Ads?

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Price-Hipo 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-Hipo from your Add\Remove Programs

STEP 2: Delete Price-Hipo from Chrome, Firefox or IE

STEP 3: Permanently Remove Price-Hipo from the windows registry.

STEP 1 : Uninstall Price-Hipo from Your Computer

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

Type “Appwiz.cpl”

Locate the Price-Hipo 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-Hipo 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.

• 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 the unwanted add on
• Open the Firefox’s Help Menu

• 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

• Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset.

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

• Close IE

Permanently Remove Price-Hipo 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.