Remove PriceKeaper Pop-up Virus Step by Step from Web Browsers

PriceKeaper affects your browsing activities when you surf the Internet? Remove with all effort but it comes back again and again to corrupt the PC? Don’t worry. This removal guide will help you get rid of PriceKeaper from your browser forever.

Description of PriceKeaper

PriceKeaper is another adware program that can install onto your machine without your permission. In general, you cannot have any ideas when you install this malicious program on the system until its toolbar appears on every browser like Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox.
Once installed, it is not easy to uninstall. PriceKeaper can get into your machine when you download some suspicious program and install it without reading its installed steps. After this malicious program is inside the system, it will make the browser work poorly by changing some default settings of the browser. Moreover, PriceKeaper will pop up tons of ads to interrupt you when you work on the computer. Those ads are always used to promote fake products. Hence, you should not buy those products that this virus suggests you. What’s more, the ads may contain many dangerous infections, which can intrude into your machine when you click on the pop-up links. In addition, PriceKeaper will decrease the speed of your system by dropping thousands of files to occupy the system space. From above, you must know that PriceKeaper is a malicious program that should be removed immediately.

Screenshot of PriceKeaper

Annoyances that are caused by PriceKeaper:

1.PriceKeaper virus will slow down your PC speed, so you cannot use your PC smoothly.
2.Lots of ads keep popping up when you surf the Internet.
3.PriceKeaper virus will disable your antivirus program and help other viruses attack your PC
4.Redirect problem will happen all the time.

Steps to remove PriceKeaper virus:

1.Stop all vicious processes of PriceKeaper from Task Manager
To do this, you can hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time to open the Task Manager. But you should know that the virus’s name may vary from one to other, so you should be careful.

2.Display all hidden files so as to remove PriceKeaper's files
To show all hidden files from PC, please follow these steps:
①Click Start Menu and click Control Panel

②Click Appearance and Personalization and click Folder Options

③Go to View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and deselect Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)

④Click OK
3.Remove all malicious files and keys from Registry Editor
To do this, you can click on Start Menu and click Run. When a dialogue pops up, you should type "regedit" in the box and click OK.

Then you will see the following Screenshot:

Now, please remove the following keys from the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Temp
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