"Ads by PriceMinus". How to remove them?

What is PriceMinus?

PriceMinus is an advertising program that shows you ads in browsers and pop-ups. One of these advertisements you can see in the picture below:

Ads by PriceMinus

You can see different types of advertising, such as coupons, programs to clean and speed up your system, messages about outdated Adobe Flash Player and so on. It can be very annoying, since it can overlap parts of web page. Avoid clicking these messages! 

PriceMinus also installs browser extensions without your consent:

PriceMinus chrome extension

Such popular browsers as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer may be exposed to the virus attack. Furthermore, home page and search engine may be changed to http://websearch.goodforsearch.info:

Chrome start page was changed without user's consent

It means that PriceMinus can falsify search results for its benefit. 

PriceMinus belongs to MultiPlug family of malicious programs and may be called by different malware scanners as:

• Adware.MultiPlug (Gridinsoft Trojan Killer) 
• PUP/Win32.MultiPlug
• Win32:Adware-gen
• ADWARE/MultiPlug.Gen4
• Trojan.DownLoader11
• Application.Win32.Multiplug
• MultiPlug-FTG
• Riskware.Win32.MultiPlug

PriceMinus can also be referred to as:

• PriceMinus
• PriiceMinus
• PriceeMinus
• PriiceeMinus
• PricueMinus
• etc

How to figure out that your computer 

is infected by PriceMinus?

Here are some signs that indicate that your computer is infected with PriceMinus virus:

• you see a lot of advertising in your browsers;
• different pop-up windows appears when you click on a web page;
• your home page was changed without your consent;
• your search engine was changed without your consent;
• at least one of the following folders present on your computer: 
• C:\Program Files\PriceMinus
• C:\Program Files (x86)\PriceMinus
• C:\Program Files\Yoono  Twitter  Facebook LinkedIn Youtube
• C:\Program Files (x86)\Yoono  Twitter  Facebook LinkedIn Youtube
• C:\Program Files\bestadblocker
• C:\Program Files (x86)\bestadblocker
• C:\ProgramData\iimdeknjdemgmmhmkcapgfpbcgbpcmge
• C:\ProgramData\{2c4e5bd6-6a74-8c3d-2c4e-e5bd66a76f59}
• at least one of the following registry items present on your computer:
  • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{15d29aae-41f4-4eb6-9f8f-ee91a8f278a4}
  • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{8e0a78e8-9394-4c34-b432-97c60dfb90d0}
  • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\TypeLib\{EB559340-3A8F-4456-B24D-160098054EF0}
  • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{4820778D-AB0D-6D18-C316-52A6A0E1D507}
  • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{AD11DADE-C597-45D9-D8C5-1D2EB0B89613}
  • HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{06B99631-BFA2-3B7A-F58B-D067C2BA59B7}
• the following task is scheduled in your system:
• bidaily synchronize task

How to get rid of PriceMinus?

Follow this guide to remove PriceMinus from your computer completely.

Step 1.  Try to remove PriceMinus using tools of Windows operating system.

If you have installed Windows 8, click the Start button on the screen or Windows button on the keyboard, start typing "programs and features" and select Programs and Features from the menu:

Programs and Features

If you have installed Windows 7, press Start button and choose Control panel: 

Windows 7 start menu

Look for PriceMinus, beastadblocker and Yoono  Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Youtube entries in the list of installed programs, select and uninstall them one-by-one using Uninstall button:

Example of the list of installed programs

Now reboot your computer and check the result. If the advertising is still present, please move to the next step.

Step 2. Remove PriceMinus completely using Gridinsoft Trojan Killer tool

Gridinsoft Trojan Killer is a powerful all-in-one tool aimed to protect you and your computer from dangerous software called 'malware'. It has no analogues on the quality of removing any kinds of threats. You can also take advantage of the professional Trojan Killer Support Team, which can solve your problem remotely, even if Trojan Killer has not solved your problem. *

Please, follow the guide below to remove PriceMinus from your computer.

• Download Gridinsoft Trojan Killer using following link: Download Gridinsoft Trojan Killer

• Close all your programs and browsers
• Install Gridinsoft Trojan Killer and run it by double-clicking on the icon on your desktop: 

  

  Trojan Killer icon on the desktop

• Run Standard scan:

  

  Scan page

• After the scanning completed mark all items as Move to quarantine and press Apply button to remove all dangerous items from your computer. Reboot your PC if Trojan Killer asks about it:

  

  Scan results

• Now you need to clean all your browsers. If you skip this step, PriceMinus still will be active in your system. Go to the Tools page and press Reset browser settings button:

  

  Tools page

• Mark all the browsers you have as shown below and press Reset button:

  

  Final step of removal process

• Reboot your PC and check the result

Now your computer should be cleaned of PriceMinus. 

If you still notice any signs of PriceMinus, please send your request to Trojan Killer Support Team. Specialists from Gridinsoft will help you in removing any kind of threats *

* Please notice that Trojan Killer Support service is available for registered users only. If you want to get free Trial Key, do not hesitate to contact Trojan Killer Support Team