What is Price-Hipo?

Price-Hipo – potentially unwanted program that comes into your computer in the form of an extension to the browser. Price-Hipo hijacks popular browsers such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Price-Hipo displays a huge amount of banners and coupons, as well as pop-ups and links to ad sites. At first glance, this program seems to be useful, but in fact many of the suggestions from this program – deception. Price-Hipo trying to get users to spend money on products that don’t exist. Also, Price-Hipo can change your browser settings, homepage and others. Also, this program can analyze the history of your browsing and collect your personal information. The resulting information may be disclosed to third parties. Price-Hipo does not do anything useful, so if you find it on your PC – remove it immediately.

How Price-Hipo gets on your PC?

Price-Hipo infects a computer without the user’s consent. Usually, it comes with free applications and programs that you can download from popular free sites such as download.com, Softpedia, Freewarefiles, Shareware, Soft32 and many others. These sites tend to create their own download managers that implement a potentially unwanted program. Users are not attentive during installation, so the computer can be infected. Always follow the important rules. Read user agreement. Take your time. Do not press the “Next” button, if you are not sure that the program will not harm your computer. Select advanced installation type. Do not settle for questionable deals and carefully follow the installation process. If Price-Hipo has already penetrated to the PC, you can use our instructions to remove it immediately.

How to remove Price-Hipo from your computer?

To uninstall Price-Hipo remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Price-Hipo in their database. You can try to use them for removing Price-Hipo.

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You can try both of these products to remove Price-Hipo

Or uninstall Price-Hipo manually.

Step 1: Remove Price-Hipo from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Price-Hipo.
5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

1. Click Start.
2. Then Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Price-Hipo and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

1. Open the Menu.
2. Click Search.
3. After that click Apps.
4. Then Control Panel.
5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
6. Find Price-Hipo, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

Windows 10:

1. Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
2. Click on App & features on the left menu.
3. On the right side, locate Price-Hipo and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
4. Click on Uninstall to confirm.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10

Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.

After that remove Price-Hipo from your browser.

Step 2: Remove Price-Hipo from browsers

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find Price-Hipo.
6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Open Firefox.
2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
3. Choose Price-Hipo.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

1. Open IE.
2. Push Alt + T.
3. Click Manage Add-ons.
4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
5. Click Disable Price-Hipo.
6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
7. Click Remove button.
8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Price-Hipo:

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Written by Rami Douafi