How to Remove PriceGong Adware
by Frank Jovine on 09/03/2010 in Scams & Hoaxes, Security, Virus Threats
There’s a program called PriceGong which claims to find great deals on various products online. The program is adware, and it will display annoying pop-up alerts and other false threats in the browser.
PriceGong will launch automatically whenever a user visits a shopping site like Amazon.com or Sears.
How to remove PriceGong manually
PriceGong registry values:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PriceGong
Other malicious PriceGong files:
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\1.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\a.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\b.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\c.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\d.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\e.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\f.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\g.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\h.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\i.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\J.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\k.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\l.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\m.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\mru.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\n.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\o.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\p.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\q.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\r.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\s.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\t.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\u.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\v.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\w.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\x.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\y.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data\z.xml
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong
C:\Documents and Settings\[user profile]\Application Data\PriceGong\Data
Automatic Removal
You can also remove PriceGong by following these instructions.
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Anand
Sep 6th, 2010
Ya body this is too good………..
thanks
carry on
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Bob
Sep 12th, 2010
Hi Tech Jaws,
This is very nice that you bother youself to write this article, But why not just use the “Add/Remove Programs”?
Or follow the uninstall instructions on PriceGong web site?
At first I didn’t find the uninstall instructions too, I’ve sent PriceGong support an email and got response very fast with detailed instruction on how to remove it.
Here is the link for all the other users: (no need to install any other software)
http://www.pricegong.com/FAQs.aspx?#uninst
Bob
Frank Jovine
Sep 12th, 2010
Bob,
Thanks for sharing and I will make note of this.
susanai
Oct 1st, 2010
Thanks for the information. Info is always helpful to non techies like me.