{"id":2541,"date":"2014-11-01T10:14:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-01T10:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:01:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:01:54","slug":"remove-pricefountain-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-pricefountain-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove PriceFountain Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there. Today I wanted to talk about an <strong>adware<\/strong> called <strong>PriceFountain<\/strong> and give you some <strong>removal instructions<\/strong>. This seems to be a variant of <a title=\"PennyBee.exe and PennyBeeW.exe \u2013 Adware Removal Instructions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-pennybee\/\"><strong>PennyBee<\/strong><\/a> that I&#8217;ve previously written about. If PriceFountain is running on your computer, you will see ads labeled <strong>brought by PriceFountain<\/strong>\u00a0while browsing the web\u00a0and pricefountain.exe and pricefountainw.exe running in the Windows Task Manager. You will also see PriceFountain in your browser&#8217;s add-on menu. I&#8217;ll show how to remove PriceFountain in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/brougt-by-PriceFountain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2542\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/brougt-by-PriceFountain.png\" alt=\"brougt by PriceFountain\" width=\"512\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/brougt-by-PriceFountain.png 512w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/brougt-by-PriceFountain-300x118.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PriceFountain-1.0-firefox-add-on-menu.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2543\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PriceFountain-1.0-firefox-add-on-menu.png\" alt=\"PriceFountain 1.0 firefox add-on menu\" width=\"550\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PriceFountain-1.0-firefox-add-on-menu.png 550w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/PriceFountain-1.0-firefox-add-on-menu-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PriceFountain is <strong>bundled<\/strong> with other software. Bundled means that it is included in another software&#8217;s installer.<\/p>\n<p>As usual when I test some new bundled software I uploaded it to VirusTotal to test if the anti-virus scanners there detect anything interesting. 19 of the antivirus scanners detected the file. AegisLab reports PriceFountain as <strong>Troj.NSIS.GoogUpdate<\/strong>, Avira detects it as <strong>Adware\/DealPly.1257472<\/strong>, F-Secure calls it <strong>Gen:Variant.Graftor.162003<\/strong>, Fortinet names it <strong>Riskware\/DealPly<\/strong> and McAfee reports <strong>Artemis!AD168966F8B7<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountainw.exe-virustotal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2548\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountainw.exe-virustotal.png\" alt=\"pricefountainw.exe virustotal\" width=\"812\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountainw.exe-virustotal.png 812w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountainw.exe-virustotal-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You probably came here looking for <strong>removal instructions for PriceFountain<\/strong> and you can do so with the <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> removal tool. Just select the PriceFountain files as shown in the screen-caps below. A restart of your machine might be required to complete the removal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountainw.exe-remove-startup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2547\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountainw.exe-remove-startup.png\" alt=\"pricefountainw.exe remove startup\" width=\"865\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountainw.exe-remove-startup.png 865w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountainw.exe-remove-startup-300x76.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountainie.dll-remove.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountainie.dll-remove.png\" alt=\"pricefountainie.dll remove\" width=\"865\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountainie.dll-remove.png 865w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountainie.dll-remove-300x71.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 865px) 100vw, 865px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountain.exe-process-remove.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountain.exe-process-remove.png\" alt=\"pricefountain.exe process remove\" width=\"686\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountain.exe-process-remove.png 686w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountain.exe-process-remove-300x118.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountain-remove.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountain-remove.png\" alt=\"pricefountain remove\" width=\"324\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountain-remove.png 324w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/pricefountain-remove-300x234.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope that helped you to figure out how to do the removal.<\/p>\n<p>I stumbled upon PriceFountain while testing out some downloads that are known to bundled lots of unwanted software. Any idea how PriceFountain was installed on your computer? Please share your story the comments below. Thank you very much!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading. Welcome back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello there. Today I wanted to talk about an adware called PriceFountain and give you some removal instructions. This seems to be a variant of PennyBee that I&#8217;ve previously written about. If PriceFountain is running on your computer, you will see ads labeled brought by PriceFountain\u00a0while browsing the web\u00a0and pricefountain.exe and pricefountainw.exe running in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-pricefountain-ads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remove PriceFountain Ads<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,16],"tags":[200,98],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2549,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/2549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}