Dollar Dream is an adware, as such it does the same as the rest of software in this category… to take advantage of the people’s lack of attention when installing new software to take a place in their systems. Once it has been able to insert itself in your computer, Dollar Dream will star spying and collecting data about everything you do online, while also showing an excessive amount of annoying ads.
This ads can be seen as pop-ups, banners, or green/blue underlined words within the text of the websites being visited by infected users. It’s quite easy to notice and identify Dollar Dream’s adds because they are usually tagged as Dollar Dream Ads or Ads by Dollar Dream.
Dollar Dream acts then like a spy, taking notice and saving information about every website you visit and every web search you make. The goal of this task is to be able to customize the ads shown in the hope of making them more appealing to you at a personal level. But that’s not all, at the same time this saved information ends up in commercial databases that are bought afterwards by others.
Dollar Dream is usually installed along with some free software found in one of the most popular download platforms like soft32.com, download.com, softonic.com, etc… They win money thanks to the little tools they add to their setup programs (so called “free of malware”) as optional software along with the software the user had chosen. As you can see installing free software has become the source of adware installation also. You can stop this by reading carefully what’s being installed by any given setup program, and by customizing such installs in order to reject any optional software.
For your information please know that Dollar Dream is considered as suspicious by 27 anti-viruses.
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How to remove Dollar Dream ?
Remove Dollar Dream from Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8)
In this first step, we will try to identify and remove any malicious program that might be installed on your computer.
- Go to the Control Panel
- Go to Programs and select Uninstall a program
- Search for Dollar Dream and click the Uninstall button
Remove Dollar Dream with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a useful tool developed to eliminate unwelcome toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner will require no installation and can be ran in a instant to examine your pc.
- Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
Download AdwCleaner - Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
- Click on the Scan button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
- Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.
Remove Dollar Dream with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware detects and removes malware like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, spyware, and more. All you have to do is launch Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Free and run a scan. If you want even better protection, consider Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Premium and its instant real-time scanner that automatically prevents malware and websites from infecting your PC.
- Download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware :
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
- Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now check for updates, and if there are any, you will need to click on the Update Now button.
- Once the program has loaded, select Scan now.
- When the scan is done, you will now be presented with a screen showing you the malware infections that Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware has detected. To remove the malicious programs that Malwarebytes Anti-malware has found, click on the Quarantine All button, and then click on the Apply Now button.
- When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.
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