Get Rid of/Remove Ads by PriceFountain Pop-up Virus

If your computer is infected by PriceFountain adware and you cannot get rid of it by yourself, you can keep reading this post carefully and follow the steps below to get rid of PriceFountain and remove all ads from PriceFountain.

The Introduction of PriceFountain

PriceFountain has been identified as an adware virus that seems functional and innocent from appearance. However, in fact, it is an annoying thing that can pop up lots of ads to disturb you online. Once it is installed into your machine, your browser will be taken up by this virus. For example, no matter when you open your browser, PriceFountain will pop up automatically on your screen, which prevents you from using the browser correctly.
Moreover, being a typical adware virus, PriceFountain is able to modify your system settings and mess up your system in a most infamous way. And after the modification is finished, it can redirect all of your search results to some other unwanted websites from time to time when you are searching for some information online.
Besides, PriceFountain may download more malware onto your machine, which will make your system operation slow down. And those malware will keep track of your browsing history and collect your confidential information, and then send to a remote server. As a result, you will be return more ads, which are used to induce you to buy fake products. Thus, PriceFountain is really malicious, so you should remove it right now.

The screenshot of PriceFountain

Step by Step by Remove PriceFountain

Step 1: navigate to Control Panel>click Uninstall a program>remove PriceFountain from the list

Step 2: right-click on Taskbar and click Start Task Manager>stop all processes related to PriceFountain

Step 3: remove PriceFountain from Google Chrome. Steps: click Menu icon>click Tools>Extensions>find PriceFountain and remove it

Step 4: remove PriceFountain from Internet Explorer. Steps: Click Tools>Manager Add-ons>delete all suspicious add-ons

Step 5: remove PriceFountain from Mozilla Firefox. Steps: Go to Tools>click Add-ons>click Plugins to remove all dangerous plugins and click Extensions to remove all risky extensions

Step 6: Disable PriceFountain’s startup items. To do this, you should click Start Menu>input “msconfig” in the search box>hit Enter. Then, the system configuration utility will be opened. Now go to Start up tab and disable all items belong to PriceFountain.

Note: you should know that any mistake changes happen in the registry will cause other serious system problems. So before you make some changes, you should back up your registry first!

How to Open & Back up the Registry