Generous Deal is given name of a parasite software that is considered malicious/unwanted as well because its developer makes no effort whatsoever to clearly explain the user the consequences of installing its software.
Generous Deal’s only goals are to show ads in all web browsers installed in your PC, and to spy on your internet activity.
These ads can be seen either as pop-ups, banners, and/or blue and green underlined words within the text of every visited website. They are usually tagged with the phrase Powered by Generous Deal or Generous Deal Ads, and it’s actually thanks to these tags that people realize they have been infected with a malicious software. We can also see this by taking a look at our browser’s add-ons list, as we can see in the following example for Internet Explorer and Firefox. Although in Firefox we can see that it says it has been deactivated by default.
Generous Deal can also be considered a spyware, because it collects and saves data about your online activity, including searches you perform and websites you visit. This data is used to customize the ads shown to you but also to save it in remote databases that can be sold afterwards.
To avoid this kind of problem in the future, make sure that every time you’re installing something new (specially with free software), you have removed any pre-selected case offering additional software.
We can easily find online a website posing as Generous Deal‘s official page. However it’s not even possible to download it there, they published this page only to make the conditions of use available. In this way no one can legally proceed against them.