What is Pricemeter?
Pricemeter is an adware application. It is often considered as a potential computer security threat, but it is not a computer virus. It may cause certain problems if it is installed bundled with other freeware. Also, due to the fact that Pricemeter displays commercial advertisements, it could be exploited as a tool for potentially undesirable content distribution. Since one cannot guarantee that having Pricemeter in the system will not cause any problem, it is strongly advised to remove Pricemeter from the computer. Do not forget that the application may have been installed with other freeware programs, so check for them as well.
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Where does Pricemeter come from?
More information on what Pricemeter is and how it functions can be found at pricemeter.net. It is the main home page for the application although the download button on the website does not work. It means that if you have this application installed on your system, it has arrived bundled with freeware. For example, Pricemeter is known to be available for download at terraria.downloads205.com. However, if you download Pricemeter from this third party website, you will end up installing a number of other potentially unwanted applications that will only slow down your system and will exhibit undesirable behavior.
What does Pricemeter do?
According to the information on the main website, Pricemeter has been created to display shopping offers that allow you to purchase something you want at a lower price. This application is supposed to be able to compare prices on a number of online shopping websites (such as walmart.com, dell.com, hp.com and so on) and then present you with a list of offers. However, despite the fact that Pricemeter may really prove to be useful, we have to keep in mind that this application is very similar to DealPly and Bonanza Deals, and its structure is identical to Duuqu. Pricemeter makes use of a proxy to inject their offers into your browser.
Apart from slowing down your browser, Pricemeter may also display offers with third party content that is not reviewed by the application. In such a case, you may risk exposure and redirection to corrupted websites that are part of online marketing schemes or even worse – malware distribution networks.
How to remove Pricemeter?
Pricemeter does not pose a direct security threat to your system, but it is not recommended to keep the application on your computer, because it could be easily exploited by malevolent third party. In fact, even if no exploitation occurs, Pricemeter can still prove to be an annoying application that interferes in your web browsing process.
You can uninstall Pricemeter via Control Panel, but at the same time there might be other potentially unwanted applications on your PC, so remove them as well. After manual removal you should also scan your system with SpyHunter free scanner, to make sure that your computer is absolutely safe.
Uninstall Pricemeter
Windows 8
- Move mouse cursor to the bottom right corner of the screen.
- Click Settings on Charm bar and go to Control Panel.
- Select Uninstall a program and remove Price Meter.
Windows Vista & Windows 7
- Open Start menu and click Control Panel.
- Open Uninstall a program and remove Price Meter.
Windows XP
- Click Start menu button and navigate to Control Panel.
- Access Add or remove programs and uninstall Price Meter.
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