What is Roaming Rate?

Roaming Rate is malicious software, which comes bundled with other free downloads without user consent. Roaming Rate appears in your web browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Internet Explorer) and displays banner ads, coupons, advertising partner sites, pop-ups and stuff. Developers are paid every time a user clicks on a banner or link. Roaming Rate is not a virus, but this program can be called as potentially unwanted. If you find Roaming Rate on your PC, then you should remove it immediately.

Roaming Rate ads

How Roaming Rate gets on your PC?

Programs, that are among the potentially unwanted programs come bundled with free software. Typically, such programs penetrate the PC without the user’s consent. Because of this, many users do not realize that a computer is infected with malware and the PC is at great risk. However, it is worth noting that the main reason for such penetrations – carelessness user. People do not read the terms and conditions during the installation of free software. It was there that may contain consent to install PUP. Also, during the installation, ensure that the installer did not offer you a third-party software. To prevent such problems, you should always follow the installation process, read the terms and conditions, do not agree to install additional software, and select Advanced type of installation. If Roaming Rate has already penetrated into your computer, you can use the instructions below.

How to remove Roaming Rate from your computer?

To uninstall Roaming Rate remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.

In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have Roaming Rate in their database. You can try to use them for removing Roaming Rate.

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You can try both of these products to remove Roaming Rate

Or uninstall Roaming Rate manually.

Removing from Control Panel

Windows XP:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Control Panel.
  3. Then click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find Roaming Rate.
  5. Click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.

Windows 7/Windows Vista:

  1. Click Start.
  2. Then Control Panel.
  3. Click Uninstall a Program.
  4. Find Roaming Rate and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.

Windows 8/Windows 8.1:

  1. Open the Menu.
  2. Click Search.
  3. After that click Apps.
  4. Then Control Panel.
  5. Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
  6. Find Roaming Rate, select it and click Uninstall.

Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).

After that remove Roaming Rate from your browser.

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Push Alt + F.
  3. Click Tools.
  4. Choose Extensions.
  5. Find Roaming Rate.
  6. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox.
  2. Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
  3. Choose Roaming Rate.
  4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.

Internet Explorer:

  1. Open IE.
  2. Push Alt + T.
  3. Click Manage Add-ons.
  4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
  5. Click Disable Roaming Rate.
  6. Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
  7. Click Remove button.
  8. If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.

Learn more about removing extensions from IE.

Remove following registry entries:


no information

Then remove following files:


Roaming Rate.dll

And following folders


%PROGRAMFILES%Roaming Rate

Written by Rami Douafi

2 Comments

  1. Uninstalled roaming rate but could not locate anything else in browser as you suggested. How can I verify it is gone?

    Thanks

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