What is PriceHorse?

PriceHorse – a malicious program that comes on the computer as a browser extension and hijacks Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. PriceHorse is advertising product and applies to potentially unwanted programs. This program comes on a PC without the user’s consent and activates immediately after opening the browser. PriceHorse displays a myriad of banners and coupons, links to ad sites, pop-ups and other things. PriceHorse shows products popular online stores and promises to help the user to save. In fact, these proposals are not genuine. PriceHorse trying to get you to spend money for nothing. Also, PriceHorse can make changes to your browser settings, change the homepage, change the search and so on. If you find PriceHorse on your computer, we recommend that you remove this program right now. Don’t waste your time.

How PriceHorse gets on your PC?

Malicious software penetrate to computer bundled with free programs. Malicious software comes on a computer without consent of the user and can cause irreparable damage to your computer. Most often, the user can prevent the penetration of such programs on their own. For this, it is necessary to follow closely the installation process and not to rush. Read the user agreement, do not agree to install suspicious software. Choose advanced or full installation type. Read reviews about the programs. You can also use special programs that will help you protect your PC. If you have found malware, use our instructions to remove it.

How to remove PriceHorse from your computer?

To uninstall PriceHorse remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

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

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You can try both of these products to remove PriceHorse

Or uninstall PriceHorse manually.

Removing from Control Panel

Windows XP:

1. Click Start.
2. Control Panel.
3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find PriceHorse.
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 PriceHorse 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 PriceHorse, select it and click Uninstall.

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

After that remove PriceHorse from your browser.

Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome
2. Push Alt + F.
3. Click Tools.
4. Choose Extensions.
5. Find PriceHorse.
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 PriceHorse.
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 PriceHorse.
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.

Remove following registry entries:

no information

Then remove following files:

PriceHorse.dll

And following folders

%PROGRAMFILES%PriceHorse

Written by Rami Douafi