Remove Price Turtle Ads from Chrome/Firefox/IE

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Price Turtle is a browser add-on which promises to provide you with suggestions on where to purchase the product you are currently viewing at a lower price. Basically, what Price Turtle is expected to do is identify the item of your interest, then look for the same item in other online shops, and finally present you with alternative offers for the same item but for less money. Thus, Price Turtle should be an effective money-saving tool, which all users would gladly download to their computers. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. Price Turtle is an ad-supported extension which means that it will flood your browser with tons of unreliable ads. There is a great chance that the majority of offers displayed by Price Turtle will be fake and will not benefit you in any way. On the contrary, they will expose you to potential threats. Make sure you avoid interacting with Price Turtle ads and delete the adware that is residing on your PC to stop the flood of annoying ads.

How did I get infected with?

You could easily download the Price Turtle browser add-on from its representative web page – priceturtle.com. The installation process does not take long and is thoroughly explained so that no one has any problems with it. Still. If you do not remember downloading such an extension, it must have arrived on your system bundled with some other free application. Dubious free applications are promoted on unknown or infamous file sharing and torrent websites, and they are distributed packed with additional programs. These programs are usually adware, browser hijackers or other potentially unwanted ones. So, it is certainly not a good idea to acquire any software from unknown sources. If you still do not remember downloading anything, then Price Turtle must have entered your system when you clicked a pop-up ad promoting updates or free apps. Such pop-up ads send users to websites where they are urged to install supposedly useful software which eventually turns out to be malware.

Why are these ads dangerous?

When you start receiving offers from Price Turtle, please keep in mind that they are not likely to be genuine. The main purpose of Price Turtle is not to help you save money on your online purchases, but to help its developers increase their financial profit. These developers will receive money from third parties to present users with their content. They will also get paid for every ad that is clicked, and this is the reason why the ads will appear so often and in such great numbers. The problem is that Price Turtle ads contain links to websites belonging to the third-party sponsors. These sponsors are not endorsed by the application and there is no information provided about them. This means that they might as well be cyber criminals exposing you to their corrupted content. Do you want to become a victim of cyber crime? Probably not, so keep that in mind next time you are tempted by an ad by Price Turtle. It is in your best interests to delete the Price Turtle browser add-on to prevent clicking some of its potentially dangerous ads by accident.

How Can I Remove Price Turtle Ads?

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

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

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

STEP 1 : Uninstall Price Turtle from Your Computer

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

Type “Appwiz.cpl”

Locate the Price Turtle 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 Turtle 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 any unknown 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 Turtle 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.