Get Rid of PriceSparrow Virus from My Browser

How to Remove PriceSparrow from IE/Chrome/Firefox

PriceSparrow corrupts your browser? It makes lots of troubles to you? But the antivirus cannot remove it successfully? If you want help to remove PriceSparrow, you can read this post and get rid of PriceSparrow from the system completely.

Introduction of PriceSparrow

PriceSparrow is known as a very unpleasant browser hijacker which will take the control of your browsers without your awareness and permission. After being installed in your compromised systems, PriceSparrow starts performing different malicious activities. Basically, it targets your browsers and stealthily adjusts your browser settings to cause you improper web navigations. So that, every time you use your browsers for searching, many of your targeted web pages are usually loaded to unfamiliar and even malicious websites. 

During your visit on different web pages, you will see many ads or other information popping up repeatedly. Furthermore, PriceSparrow drops malicious files to corrupt and destroy your other system files, which will severely degrade your PC performance. To be more specific, some executable programs will become unresponsive; many weird processes run in the background to take up high CPU usage and eat up a big portion of your internet resources. And worse still, its bad destructions will chisels up backdoors in your stricken systems to allow more mal-wares, ad-wares etc to get into your systems. Indeed, such an unpleasant browser hijacker is an excruciating headache to every computer user. All in all, you should not hesitate to clean up PriceSparrow the moment you find it.

Major symptoms of PriceSparrow

a.       The homepage is suddenly replaced by other site.

b.      The search results on Google, Bring, or Yahoo are completely redirected to unwanted sites.

c.       The desired websites are full of annoying ads and unwanted information.

d.      The system runs really slow.

e.       The browser is always hijacked to its domain websites.

Solution to uninstall PriceSparrow efficiently

Commonly, this kind of adware can use rootkit technology to hide inside the system. So many antivirus programs cannot detect it and remove it completely. For this reason, you should carry out a manual removal. Please read the following guide carefully and remove PriceSparrow right now.

Step one : make all vicious items disabled.

1.      Press Window+R at the same time, then type “msconfig” in the box of “Run” and click OK

2.      Select Startup and look for all malicious items that are related to PriceSparrow, and stop them

Step two: Uninstall this program from Control Panel

For Win7 and Win Vista

Click Start menu, choose Control Panel, then double click Programs( and Features). Go to find out PriceSparrow, and uninstall it.

For Win XP

Go to Start menu, Select “Settings”, and then go to Control Panel. After that, open “Add or Remove Programs”. In there, find out PriceSparrow and remove it.

Step three: Get rid of extensions and add-ons and restore the browser

For Internet Explorer users

1.      Go to “Tools”

2.      Select Manage Add-ons

3.      Select “Search Providers”, then choose Google or Bring from the list to set it as your default search engine.

4.      Go to Tools, go to Internet Options. Then, click General tab to choose a website like Google.com and don’t forget to save the modifications by clicking OK.

For Google Chrome users

1.      Go to “Customize and control”>Settings

2.      Select “Basic Options”

3.      Set Google.com as your homepage, or you also can click “Manage Search Engines…”to select other website.

4.      Choose Google as your default search engine

5.      Select the “Search Result” and click “X” to remove it.

For Mozilla Firefox users

1.      Click magnifier, then select “Manage Search Engine…”

2.      Find out Search Result from that list and remove it, and then click OK.

3.      Go to “Tools”>click Options. Then, in General Tab, reset the homepage and search engine to your favorite site

Step four: Remove all files and registry entries related to PriceSparrow

To open the Registry Editor, you can click start menu and click run. Then, type regedit in the box and click ok.

%Temp%PriceSparrow\bin\random characteristic

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\

Attention: you need to be careful when perform the above steps, for every mistake will result in other complicate system problems.