If you have started noticing unexpected ads coming at you while browsing the net, tagged as powered by Great Deals, you can be pretty sure that your computer has been infected with an adware.
An adware is not a virus, although it might act like one. Their goal is to show you and thus force you to see a huge amount of ads, actually as many as possible. This is due to the fact that the more ads you see, the more money for the adware’s developers.
Great Deals‘ authors use several distribution techniques to make sure you install their adware without even noticing it. First of all they sign partnership contracts with download websites that are already well known among users, to make them add their adware to other tools. Of course they also use some less “proper” techniques… in fact Great Deals is seen a lot in streaming websites that ask you to download and install some fake plug-in or fake video player to grant you access to videos you’re looking for.
Therefore, if you want to get rid of Great Deals once and for all, we strongly advice you to use our guide to accomplish an effective removal. Our guide includes only 100% free tools.
How to remove Great Deals ?
Remove Great Deals from your browser
- Open Chrome and go to the 3 stripes icon in top right corner.
- Select Settings and on the left side Extensions.
- Remove Great Deals by clicking the trash can icon.
- Restart Chrome.
- Open Firefox
- Click on the Big Orange Firefox button in top left corner, then select Add-ons
- Remove Great Deals by clicking the Remove button.
- Restart Firefox
- Open Internet Explorer
- Click on the Gear icon , then click on Manage Addons
- Go to the tabToolbars and Extensions
- Select and disable Great Deals if you can’t find it or if you can't remove it, go to the next step.
- Restart Internet Explorer
Remove Great Deals with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a program that looks for and removes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using AdwCleaner you can quickly delete many of these types of applications for a better user experience on your system and while browsing websites.
- Download AdwCleaner (Official link and direct-download) :
Download AdwCleaner - Select AdwCleaner.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator.
- If User Account Control asks you to allow AdwCleaner.exe to make changes to your computer, press Yes to continue.
- Start scanning your computer for any malicious threats by selecting the Scan button, please wait.
- If AdwCleaner is done, it will display a list of malicious items detected, If you have nothing to uncheck, continue to the removal process and select the Clean button.
- Reboot your computer.
Remove Great Deals with ZHPCleaner
ZHPCleaner is a program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using ZHPCleaner you can easily remove many of these types of programs for a better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.
- If Avast is installed on you computer you have to disable it during the process.
- You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below button :
Download ZHPCleaner - Select ZHPCleaner.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator.
- Accept the user agreement.
- Click on the Scanner button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Repair button.
- Reboot your computer.
Remove Great Deals with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is an important security program for any computer user to have installed on their computer. It is light-weight, fast, and best of all, excellent at removing the latest infections like Great Deals.
- Download MalwareBytes Anti-Malware :
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Double-click mbam-setup-consumer.exe and follow the prompts to install the program.
- 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.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for Great Deals.
- 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.
- Reboot your computer if prompted.
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