Well that’s great, I’m screwed, my dad is going to kill me if he finds out I had his computer infected by Price Slicer adware. Now all his favorite websites were gone. What’s worse, when launch the explorer, the pop-up ads like the bullets were shot out from a machine gun, kept annoying me from time to time. I don’t know if that’s a good news or not, except explorers, other programs are still OK to use. However, that’s not the point, the computer has very important info in it, if something happen to that will affect my old man’s business. I used my phone to google about it, and I think the explorers were hijacked by Price Slice adware. I just want solve this thing out as soon as possible, so my dad would not notice what happen, please help!

Brief Introduction to Price Slicer Adware

Price Slicer Adware is a newly browse hijacker which is widely spreading over internet lately. Like typical characteristic of many other hijackers, you’ll first see your explorers’ home page has replace by another site without asking for your approval. Affected browser’s home page or new tab will resolve to Price Slicer Adware on start-up. Besides that, this hijacker also be known as adware, endless advertisements will be shown anywhere on your screen, as underlined keywords, pop-up ads or advertising banners. It generates web traffic, collects sales leads for other dubious sites, and will display advertisements and sponsored links within your web browser. Normally, your computer may get this adware from third-party application; the hijacker is commonly bundled with free programs which people barely know. Still, due to many different reasons, many victims are enticed to download freeware bundled with Price Slicer hijacker. After done installed, the browser hijacker can be saved clandestine and without users’permission. So, Price Slicer Adware may turn your browsers upside down, different homepage, wrong browsers setting, it could also display some advertisements and sponsored links when you visit some website. You are not able to open websites which you regularly visit, many function buttons in browser are failure to use. Obviously, this hijacker was designed by cyber criminals for bad means.

Price Slicer Adware Screenshot

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Price Slicer Adware is a very common ads-ware in the internet, for some computer users, that could be the most annoying, when you use any search engine such as google, bing etc, it will always redirect to the page you don’t want, your system registry already screwed , the hijacker may also be activated each time you start or reboot your system. However, never consider this as a small problem, you should remove it soon before it leads you to a bigger problem some day, the worst situation is your private info or data will be getting used by bad guys. By the way, you should always pay attention when installing free software, especially, a software installer includes optional installs. Be careful for options, it cold be a hijacker in it. You’d better deselect anything that is not familiar, especially optional software that you never wanted to download and install in the first place. For the safe of you and your computer, please remove this hijacker at once!

The properties of Infected Computer

-Can change your homepage to other sites which cannot be detected by the anti-virus program

-Can pop up many ads you don’t want and provide you junk links, make you unable to surf the internet

-Can create more junks and make your computer run slowly which properly lead your computer to blue screen

-Can download unnecessary programs automatically, some may harm your computer system

-Can screw up the settings of your browser and very hard for inexperience users to change it back

-Can be taken use by hackers with your private information and data for unlawful act

NOTE: If any of these properties show on your PC, your computer probably got infected with Price Slicer Adware. And believe or not, someone will be driven crazy by this pop-up ads and any other things. If you don’t have sufficient knowledge of computer.If you don’t have sufficient knowledge of computer, Please contact YooSecurity Online PC Experts to remove this browser hijacker for you.

Manual Removal Guide of Browser Hijacker (For Computer Literate)

There is a removal guide of Price Slicer Adware provided here; however, expertise is required during the process of removal, please make sure you are capable to do it by yourself.

Step 1: Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to this hijacker, the name of the process of it is random.

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Step 2: Try to find Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

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Step 3: Click on Start button at the right lower corner, then click on Control Panel

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Then you will come to the Control Panel windows, click on Add and Remove Programs

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Then try to find the program which relates to Downasd.com hijacker, highlight it and choose Remove, the program’s name is random.

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Step4: Change your homepage in your browser (Take Internet Explorer as an Example)

From the Navigation toolbar in Internet Explorer, click Tools and select Internet Options.

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Then type the URL you want into the Home page box and then click OK

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Conclusion:

No matter what, you don’t expect to get Price Slicer Adware or other similar kind on your computer, most of the sufferer all claimed that they very annoying, it will kill your patience. If you find there are various ads popping up within Price Slicer, then your browser is hijacked by a redirect. It will take you forever to load up the web site, and your website will keep redirecting. Your browsers will go haywire, totally in a chaos, poor computer performance and unstable network. What’s worse, it’ll download malicious software automatically and steal your important privacy information by ulterior means. Anyway, your computer will act slowly day by day which will even lead the operating system crashes down. So, my suggestion is please remove Price Slicer Hijacker as soon as possible, your hesitation will put you in dangerous situation. However, at present, manual removal still can be the most effective way to get rid of this kind of hijacker or other similar kind of hijacker from your PC. Manual removal will be the best way to get rid of the Price Slicer Adware from Computer.

Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of this Hijacker? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on September 28, 2014 7:05 pm

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