Friday
2013-04-24, 15:39
The following instructions have been created to help you to get rid of "Pricepeep" manually.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
If this guide was helpful to you, please consider donating towards this site (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=donate).
Threat Details:
Categories:
adware
bho
Description:
Pricepeep comes along bundled with SweetIM and installs a toolbar to the Internet Explorer and Chrome. May show annoying popups while surfing on e.g. ebay. Pricepeep can install hidden without requesting user consent.
Removal Instructions:
Files:
Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd) to remove them.
Registry:
You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.
Delete the registry key "{1B97A696-5576-43AC-A73B-E1D2C78F21E8}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
Delete the registry key "{38A066B0-DD5F-4226-AC4F-6A27C1BFB892}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\".
Delete the registry key "{3BF3DED5-0FC8-4207-AC09-AA7B5AF4E408}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\".
Delete the registry key "{75BF416E-4326-45B5-8A2D-AE32D05B930B}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
Delete the registry key "PricePeep.DLL" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\".
If Pricepeep uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=regalyzer), RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.
Use this guide at your own risk; software should usually be better suited to remove malware, since it is able to look deeper.
If this guide was helpful to you, please consider donating towards this site (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=donate).
Threat Details:
Categories:
adware
bho
Description:
Pricepeep comes along bundled with SweetIM and installs a toolbar to the Internet Explorer and Chrome. May show annoying popups while surfing on e.g. ebay. Pricepeep can install hidden without requesting user consent.
Removal Instructions:
Files:
Important: There are more files that cannot be safely described in simple words. Please use Spybot-S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=spybotsd) to remove them.
Registry:
You can use regedit.exe (included in Windows) to locate and delete these registry entries.
Delete the registry key "{1B97A696-5576-43AC-A73B-E1D2C78F21E8}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
Delete the registry key "{38A066B0-DD5F-4226-AC4F-6A27C1BFB892}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\".
Delete the registry key "{3BF3DED5-0FC8-4207-AC09-AA7B5AF4E408}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib\".
Delete the registry key "{75BF416E-4326-45B5-8A2D-AE32D05B930B}" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Interface\".
Delete the registry key "PricePeep.DLL" at "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppID\".
If Pricepeep uses rootkit technologies, use our RegAlyzer (http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=regalyzer), RootAlyzer (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=8) or our Total Commander anti-rootkit plugins (http://forums.spybot.info/downloads.php?id=3).
Final Words:
If neither Spybot-S&D nor self help did resolve the issue or you would prefer one on one help,
Please read these instructions (http://forums.spybot.info/showthread.php?t=288) before requesting assistance,
Then start your own thread in the Malware Removal Forum (http://forums.spybot.info/forumdisplay.php?f=22) where a volunteer analyst will advise you as soon as available.