Price Rocket is a legitimate application that is supposed to enhance your online shopping experience. The promoted advertisements in the form of deals, coupons, banners, and pop-ups appear on the web pages visited by the user and can be quite intrusive. Although the nature of the application is not malicious, experts classify it as PUP (potentially unwanted program) because of the potential risks targeted advertisement hides.
How Is Price Rocket Distributed?
When not installed on purpose, the Price Rocket application enters the system bundled with other free programs. This is a common practice among software developers, so if you do not want any suspicious programs to be installed on your machine in a stealth manner, you should choose the Custom options and deselect any additional apps, add-ons or plug-ins that come with the desired software.
The advertisements labeled “Ads by Price Rocket”, „Powered by Price Rocket” and “Price Rocket Ads” can appear in popular web browsers like Chrome, Firefox or Explorer.
Price Rocket’s Behavior
Once active, Price Rocket displays a variety of deals, coupons and pop-up advertisements matching the user’s interests. This functionality may be considered useful, but the marketing materials may contain links to corrupted web pages or present other security risks to the affected machine. Adware programs are typically used to generate pay-per-click revenue and boost the web traffic of predetermined web pages. Experts warn that clicking on the promoted products and services may make your PC vulnerable to further threats.
Price Rocket may track information on the affected machine, such as IP address, and location, search entries, visited websites.
The collected data is used for the purposes of targeted advertising and may be shared with interested third parties.
How to Remove Price Rocket from Your PC?
Adware is not of a malicious nature, yet users PC should be aware that it may make the machine vulnerable to malware infiltration. Price Rocket can be removed manually or with a trusted anti-malware program. Follow the manual below to delete Price Rocket permanently.
Spy Hunter scanner will only detect the threat. If you want the threat to be automatically removed, you need to purchase the full version of the anti-malware tool. Find Out More About SpyHunter Anti-Malware Tool
- Guide 1: How to Remove Price Rocket from Windows.
- Guide 2: Get rid of Price Rocket on Mac OS X.
- Guide 3: Remove Price Rocket in Google Chrome.
- Guide 4: Erase Price Rocket from Mozilla Firefox.
- Guide 5: Uninstall Price Rocket from Microsoft Edge.
- Guide 6: Remove Price Rocket from Safari.
- Guide 7: Eliminate Price Rocket from Internet Explorer.
- Guide 8: Disable Price Rocket Push Notifications in Your Browsers.
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How to Remove Price Rocket from Windows.
Step 1: Boot Your PC In Safe Mode to isolate and remove Price Rocket





Step 2: Uninstall Price Rocket and related software from Windows
Here is a method in few easy steps that should be able to uninstall most programs. No matter if you are using Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista or XP, those steps will get the job done. Dragging the program or its folder to the recycle bin can be a very bad decision. If you do that, bits and pieces of the program are left behind, and that can lead to unstable work of your PC, errors with the file type associations and other unpleasant activities. The proper way to get a program off your computer is to Uninstall it. To do that:



Step 3: Clean any registries, created by Price Rocket on your computer.
The usually targeted registries of Windows machines are the following:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
You can access them by opening the Windows registry editor and deleting any values, created by Price Rocket there. This can happen by following the steps underneath:



Before starting "Step 4", please boot back into Normal mode, in case you are currently in Safe Mode.
This will enable you to install and use SpyHunter 5 successfully.
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Get rid of Price Rocket from Mac OS X.
Step 1: Uninstall Price Rocket and remove related files and objects
1. Hit the ⇧+⌘+U keys to open Utilities. Another way is to click on “Go” and then click “Utilities”, like the image below shows:
- Go to Finder.
- In the search bar type the name of the app that you want to remove.
- Above the search bar change the two drop down menus to “System Files” and “Are Included” so that you can see all of the files associated with the application you want to remove. Bear in mind that some of the files may not be related to the app so be very careful which files you delete.
- If all of the files are related, hold the ⌘+A buttons to select them and then drive them to “Trash”.
In case you cannot remove Price Rocket via Step 1 above:
In case you cannot find the virus files and objects in your Applications or other places we have shown above, you can manually look for them in the Libraries of your Mac. But before doing this, please read the disclaimer below:
You can repeat the same procedure with the following other Library directories:
→ ~/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
Tip: ~ is there on purpose, because it leads to more LaunchAgents.
Step 2: Scan for and remove Price Rocket files from your Mac
When you are facing problems on your Mac as a result of unwanted scripts and programs such as Price Rocket, the recommended way of eliminating the threat is by using an anti-malware program. SpyHunter for Mac offers advanced security features along with other modules that will improve your Mac’s security and protect it in the future.
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Remove Price Rocket from Google Chrome.
Step 1: Start Google Chrome and open the drop menu
Step 2: Move the cursor over "Tools" and then from the extended menu choose "Extensions"
Step 3: From the opened "Extensions" menu locate the unwanted extension and click on its "Remove" button.
Step 4: After the extension is removed, restart Google Chrome by closing it from the red "X" button at the top right corner and start it again.
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Erase Price Rocket from Mozilla Firefox.
Step 1: Start Mozilla Firefox. Open the menu window
Step 2: Select the "Add-ons" icon from the menu.
Step 3: Select the unwanted extension and click "Remove"
Step 4: After the extension is removed, restart Mozilla Firefox by closing it from the red "X" button at the top right corner and start it again.
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Uninstall Price Rocket from Microsoft Edge.
Step 1: Start Edge browser.
Step 2: Open the drop menu by clicking on the icon at the top right corner.
Step 3: From the drop menu select "Extensions".
Step 4: Choose the suspected malicious extension you want to remove and then click on the gear icon.
Step 5: Remove the malicious extension by scrolling down and then clicking on Uninstall.
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Remove Price Rocket from Safari.
Step 1: Start the Safari app.
Step 2: After hovering your mouse cursor to the top of the screen, click on the Safari text to open its drop down menu.
Step 3: From the menu, click on "Preferences".
Step 4: After that, select the 'Extensions' Tab.
Step 5: Click once on the extension you want to remove.
Step 6: Click 'Uninstall'.
A pop-up window will appear asking for confirmation to uninstall the extension. Select 'Uninstall' again, and the Price Rocket will be removed.
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Eliminate Price Rocket from Internet Explorer.
Step 1: Start Internet Explorer.
Step 2: Click on the gear icon labeled 'Tools' to open the drop menu and select 'Manage Add-ons'
Step 3: In the 'Manage Add-ons' window.
Step 4: Select the extension you want to remove and then click 'Disable'. A pop-up window will appear to inform you that you are about to disable the selected extension, and some more add-ons might be disabled as well. Leave all the boxes checked, and click 'Disable'.
Step 5: After the unwanted extension has been removed, restart Internet Explorer by closing it from the red 'X' button located at the top right corner and start it again.
Remove Push Notifications caused by Price Rocket from Your Browsers.
Turn Off Push Notifications from Google Chrome
To disable any Push Notices from Google Chrome browser, please follow the steps below:
Step 1: Go to Settings in Chrome.
Step 2: In Settings, select “Advanced Settings”:
Step 3: Click “Content Settings”:
Step 4: Open “Notifications”:
Step 5: Click the three dots and choose Block, Edit or Remove options:
Remove Push Notifications on Firefox
Step 1: Go to Firefox Options.
Step 2: Go to “Settings”, type “notifications” in the search bar and click "Settings":
Step 3: Click “Remove” on any site you wish notifications gone and click “Save Changes”
Stop Push Notifications on Opera
Step 1: In Opera, press ALT+P to go to Settings
Step 2: In Setting search, type “Content” to go to Content Settings.
Step 3: Open Notifications:
Step 4: Do the same as you did with Google Chrome (explained below):
Eliminate Push Notifications on Safari
Step 1: Open Safari Preferences.
Step 2: Choose the domain from where you like push pop-ups gone and change to "Deny" from "Allow".