{"id":6595,"date":"2015-06-23T19:19:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T19:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=6595"},"modified":"2018-05-29T11:57:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T11:57:34","slug":"remove-cuttheprice-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-cuttheprice-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove CutThePrice Ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers. Welcome to the blog. Today I wanted to talk about an <strong>adware<\/strong> named <strong>CutThePrice<\/strong> and thought I should give you some <strong>removal instructions<\/strong>. If CutThePrice is running on your machine, you&#8217;ll see a new add-on called CutThePrice installed into Firefox and IE.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CutThePrice-firefox-add-on.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6597\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CutThePrice-firefox-add-on.png\" alt=\"CutThePrice firefox add-on\" width=\"581\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CutThePrice-firefox-add-on.png 581w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CutThePrice-firefox-add-on-300x155.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 581px) 100vw, 581px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll show how to remove CutThePrice in this blog post with the FreeFixer removal tool.<\/p>\n<p>So, how did CutThePrice install on your machine? It was probably <strong>bundled<\/strong> with some download that you installed recently. Bundling means that software is included in other software&#8217;s installers. When I first found CutThePrice, it was bundled with a software called <strong>LightningDownloader<\/strong>. This is how CutThePrice was disclosed in LightningDownloader&#8217;s installer when I found it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CutThePRice-installer.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6598\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CutThePRice-installer.png\" alt=\"CutThePRice installer\" width=\"278\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the standard procedure when I mess around with some new bundled software I uploaded it to <a title=\"How To Scan a File for Viruses with VirusTotal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/scan-files-for-viruses-virustotal\/\">VirusTotal<\/a> to see if the anti-malware scanners there detect anything suspicious. 13% of the anti-malware scanners detected the file. The CutThePrice files are detected as <strong>AdPlugin.DUO<\/strong> by AVG, <strong>PUP.Optional.MultiPlug.A<\/strong> by Malwarebytes and <strong>Multiplug-FWX<\/strong> by McAfee.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CutThePrice-anti-virus-report.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6596\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CutThePrice-anti-virus-report.png\" alt=\"CutThePrice anti-virus report\" width=\"688\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CutThePrice-anti-virus-report.png 688w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/CutThePrice-anti-virus-report-300x136.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 688px) 100vw, 688px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You probably came here looking for <strong>removal instructions for CutThePrice<\/strong> and you can do so with the <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> removal tool. Here&#8217;s a few screenshots that should help you along the way: You may have to restart your computer to complete the removal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/remove-CutThePrice-IE.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6600\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/remove-CutThePrice-IE.png\" alt=\"remove CutThePrice IE\" width=\"677\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/remove-CutThePrice-IE.png 677w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/remove-CutThePrice-IE-300x135.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 677px) 100vw, 677px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/remove-CutThePrice-firefox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6599\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/remove-CutThePrice-firefox.png\" alt=\"remove CutThePrice firefox\" width=\"530\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/remove-CutThePrice-firefox.png 530w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/remove-CutThePrice-firefox-300x125.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope that helped you to figure out how to do the removal.<\/p>\n<p>Do you also have CutThePrice on your computer? Any idea how it installed? Please share your story the comments below. Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>Hope you found this useful. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers. Welcome to the blog. Today I wanted to talk about an adware named CutThePrice and thought I should give you some removal instructions. If CutThePrice is running on your machine, you&#8217;ll see a new add-on called CutThePrice installed into Firefox and IE. I&#8217;ll show how to remove CutThePrice in this blog post with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-cuttheprice-ads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remove CutThePrice 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],"tags":[97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595"}],"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=6595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6601,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions\/6601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}