What is Best Price Ninja?
Best Price Ninja application is presented by its creators as a handy helper in online shopping, it promises to search the net for best deals and deliver a user with coupons and discount offers. So, by this disguise BestPriceNinja adware slithers into the victims’ systems. Some users believe in the promises of malware and utilize Best Price Ninja for some time, however the majority tries to find the ways to remove Best Price Ninja immediately after its appearance. The adware provokes such actions by being extremely annoying in producing ads and not fulfilling its statements in helping users. On the contrary, having Best Price Ninja on your computer leads to further infection, as with the help of attractive commercials it allures people on suspicious sites and causes unwanted redirections.
How Best Price Ninja got installed on your computer?
One more problem about Best Price Ninja is that the adware can sneak into the computer without your direct permission. It is included in many freeware setups and marked to be installed by default. The adware is hidden so that users wouldn’t easily notice it and decline its installation. To opt out the unwanted application you first need to choose the Advanced setup mode, where you will be able to see the list of included components. And then simply uncheck the box with a program you don’t like.
Symptoms of Best Price Ninja infection
- First and the most striking proof of what you have an adware is ads generated on pages where they haven’t appeared before. The ads can be of any type – pop-ups, in-text hyperlinks, banners and their amount increases on shopping sites. Some of them may be labeled as “Ads by Best Price Ninja”, “Brought by Best Price Ninja”, “Powered by Best Price Ninja”, etc.
- Another indicator of adware infection is appearance of new programs that you don’t remember installing and processes in start-up queue.
- Also, you may notice the significant slowdown in the system operating, since running of the applications required for adware activity may consume a lot of CPU.
- Besides slowing down the computer itself, adware infection may as well negatively affect the speed of Internet connection.
How to remove Best Price Ninja?
To make sure that the adware won’t appear again, you need to delete Best Price Ninja completely. For this you need to remove the application from the Control Panel and then check the drives for such leftovers as Best Price Ninja files and registry entries.
We should warn you that performing some of the steps may require above-average skills, so if you don’t feel experienced enough, you may apply to automatic removal tool.
Performing an antimalware scan with Norton would automatically search out and delete all elements related to Best Price Ninja. It is not only the easiest way to eliminate Best Price Ninja, but also the safest and most assuring one.
Steps of Best Price Ninja manual removal
Uninstall Best Price Ninja from Control Panel
As it was stated before, more likely that the adware appeared on your system brought by other software. So, to get rid of Best Price Ninja you need to call to memory what you have installed recently.
How to remove Best Price Ninja from Windows XP
- Click the Start button and open Control Panel
- Go to Add or Remove Programs
- Find the application related to Best Price Ninja and click Uninstall
How to remove Best Price Ninja from Windows 7/Vista
- Click the Start button and open Control Panel
- Go to Uninstall Program
- Find the application related to Best Price Ninja and click Uninstall
How to remove Best Price Ninja from Windows 8/8.1
- Right-click the menu icon in left bottom corner
- Choose Control Panel
- Select the Uninstall Program line
- Uninstall the application related to Best Price Ninja
How to remove Best Price Ninja from Windows 10
- Press Win+X to open Windows Power menu
- Click Control Panel
- Choose Uninstall a Program
- Select the application related to Best Price Ninja and remove it
If you experience problems with removing Best Price Ninja from Control Panel: there is no such title on the list, or you receive an error preventing you from deleting the application, see the article dedicated to this issue.
Read what to do if program won’t uninstall from Control Panel
Remove Best Price Ninja from browsers
Since most of adware threats use a disguise of a browser add-on , you will need to check the list of extensions/add-ons in your browser.
How to remove Best Price Ninja from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome
- Click on Tools, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Best Price Ninja or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Best Price Ninja from Internet Explorer
- Launch Internet Explorer
- Click on the Tools/Gear icon, then select Manage Add-ons
- Delete Best Price Ninja or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Best Price Ninja from Mozilla Firefox
- Start Mozilla Firefox
- Click on the right-upper corner button
- Click Add-ons, then go to Extensions
- Delete Best Price Ninja or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Best Price Ninja from Microsoft Edge
- Start Microsoft Edge
- Click the three-dot button in the upper right corner
- Choose Extensions
- Click the gear icon near Best Price Ninja or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
- Choose Remove
Remove files and registry entries added by Best Price Ninja
Sometimes removal via Control Panel is not enough since the built-in application can leave some files that shortly will restore the adware. So, you need to find all of the following items and delete them.
Remove Best Price Ninja files and folders:
%windir%\Tasks\Best Price Ninja[RANDOM CHARACTERS]
%windir%\System32\Tasks\Best Price Ninja[RANDOM CHARACTERS]
%windir%\Tasks\BestPriceNinja[RANDOM CHARACTERS]
%PROGRAMFILES%\Best Price Ninja
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Best Price Ninja
%PROGRAMFILES%\BestPriceNinja
%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\BestPriceNinja
https_pstatic.bestpriceninja.com_0.localstorage
https_pstatic.bestpriceninja.com_0.localstorage-journal
Remove Best Price Ninja registry entries:
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg\BestPriceNinja
SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Shared Tools\MSConfig\startupreg\BestPriceNinja
Software\Best Price Ninja
Wow6432Node\AppID\BestPriceNinja.DLL
AppID\BestPriceNinja.DLL
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\Best Price Ninja
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\Best Price Ninja Udpater
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\DOMStorage\pstatic.bestpriceninja.com
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\LowRegistry\DOMStorage\bestpriceninja.com
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\pstatic.bestpriceninja.com
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\bestpriceninja.com
SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Children\001\Internet Explorer\EdpDomStorage\bestpriceninja.com
SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Children\001\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\bestpriceninja.com
SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Children\001\Internet Explorer\DOMStorage\pstatic.bestpriceninja.com
SOFTWARE\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AppContainer\Storage\microsoft.microsoftedge_8wekyb3d8bbwe\Children\001\Internet Explorer\EdpDomStorage\pstatic.bestpriceninja.com