PriceMinus is advertised as a program that displays coupons for sites you are visiting and competitive prices when you are viewing product pages at sites like Amazon. Though this may sound like a useful service, the PriceMinus program can be intrusive and will display ads whether you want them to or not.
When installed, the PriceMinus browser extension will display advertising banners, pop-up advertisements and in-text ads, stating that they are brought to you by “PriceMinus”. The PriceMinus Ads will have different text under the pop-up: “Powered by PriceMinus”, “Brought to you by PriceMinus”, “You’ve received a premium offer from PriceMinus” or “Ads by PriceMinus”.
When installed, the PriceMinus browser extension will display advertising banners, pop-up advertisements and in-text ads, stating that they are brought to you by “PriceMinus”. The PriceMinus Ads will have different text under the pop-up: “Powered by PriceMinus”, “Brought to you by PriceMinus”, “You’ve received a premium offer from PriceMinus” or “Ads by PriceMinus”.
These ads are aimed to promote the installation of additional questionable content including web browser toolbars, optimization utilities and other products, all so the PriceMinus publisher can generate pay-per-click revenue.
When infected with PriceMinus the common symptoms include:
When infected with PriceMinus the common symptoms include:
- Advertising banners are injected with the web pages that you are visiting.
- Random web page text is turned into hyperlinks.
- Browser popups appear which recommend fake updates or other software.
- Other unwanted adware programs might get installed without the user’s knowledge.
