Remove Pocket Rebates Ads from Chrome/Firefox/IE

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Pocket Rebates is, despite its best efforts to convince you otherwise, nothing more than a potentially unwanted adware program. The PUP tries to convince you that it’s useful, reliable, and if you believe it, you won’t regret it. It makes a lot of grand promises but falls short of every single one. In its core, it’s a hazardous infection, whose presence leads to trouble, and lots of it. Look past the sugary layer of marketing, and its unreliability shines through. What does the tool truly accomplish? Supposedly, it can help you save money. But does it? No. No, it doesn’t. In fact, it ends up costing you money. Do you know why? Because every single one of the ‘money-saving’ advertisements it throws your way is corrupted. Yes, the ads may indeed display amazing offers of deals and bargains, but to click on them would be a dreadful mistake. They’re bundled with various malware, to whose installation you agree to every single time you press a pop-up. So, unless you wish to flood your system with malware, don’t click the pesky pop-ups! But that’s just one of the issues which the ads pose. Since they’ll pop up every single time you try to go online, they’ll also end up slowing down your PC and cause frequent system crashes. How long do you think you’ll be able to put up with Pocket Rebates’s incessant meddling? It will hardly take long before you go from slightly annoyed to utterly infuriated. Delete the PUP at once! Don’t allow t to mess up your system and bury you in issues! Don’t allow that to happen. Save yourself the time and energy of dealing with Pocket Rebates and its never-ending pile of problems. Get rid of it. Now.

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How did I get infected with?

Pocket Rebates doesn’t just show up on your computer one day. Oh, no. Oh, no. It requires permission to enter, your permission. That’s right. Unless the application gets you to approve its installation, it cannot get into your system. That’s why it has come up with an entire myriad of methods to use for that purpose. The tool usually tricks you with the help of the old but gold means of infiltration as they’ve proven their worth over time. And, Pocket Rebates doesn’t just dupe you into allowing it in but also keeps you oblivious to it until it chooses to clue you into its existence. That usually happens with the commencement of the pop-up ad bombardment. As was already stated, to invade your PC, the PUP turns to slyness and subtlety. It can hitch a ride with freeware, spam email attachments, corrupted links, or sites or it can pretend to be a bogus update. Whichever method it turns to, be careful, be vigilant and do your due diligence. Don’t rush and don’t give into gullibility and distraction. Carelessness won’t do you any good while even a little extra attention goes a long way.

Why are these ads dangerous?

As the name lets on, Pocket Rebates is a program to do with saving money. And, who doesn’t want to save money? The application promises assistance in increasing your savings. How does it accomplish that you ask? Well, it’s pretty straightforward. The tool displays pop-up ads every time you try to use your browser. The advertisements show you all kinds of deals and bargains you can take advantage of, as well as provide coupons for online sales. So far, so good, right? Wrong. These ads may, in fact, show you all kinds of seemingly money-saving offers, but you can’t truly take advantage of them. It was already explained that if you click on an ad, you’ll end up installing more unwanted malicious tools on your system. So, all of these promises and ads, depicting amazing deals, are for not. Their purpose is to reel you in, so you click on them, and produce pay-per-click profits for the people, who published the program. Don’t indulge them! Don’t press the harmful, useless ads! Pocket Rebates is not trustworthy. It doesn’t help you. It harms you. Don’t fall for its treachery! It’s nothing more than a hazardous infection, seeking to exploit you. And, that’s not counting the severe security threat, which the application places upon you. Oh, yes. Among everything else the PUP puts you through, it also jeopardizes your personal and financial information. The application spies on you, catalogs every online move you make, and then sends the data it gathered from you to the people behind it. Think about it. Strangers will be given access to your private life. Is that something you’re going to allow? Is that a risk you’re willing to take? Here’s a hint: don’t. Spare yourself all of this trouble, and remove the tool as soon as you realize it’s residing on your PC. Pocket Rebates is not worth even half the hassle it ends up causing. Delete it.

How Can I Remove Pocket Rebates Ads?

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Pocket Rebates infection. Please, follow the procedures in the exact order. Please, consider to print this guide or have another computer at your disposal. You will NOT need any USB sticks or CDs.

STEP 1: Uninstall Pocket Rebates from your Add\Remove Programs

STEP 2: Delete Pocket Rebates from Chrome, Firefox or IE

STEP 3: Permanently Remove Pocket Rebates from the windows registry.

STEP 1 : Uninstall Pocket Rebates from Your Computer

Simultaneously press the Windows Logo Button and then “R” to open the Run Command

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Type “Appwiz.cpl

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Locate the Pocket Rebates program and click on uninstall/change. To facilitate the search you can sort the programs by date. review the most recent installed programs first. In general you should remove all unknown programs.

STEP 2 : Remove Pocket Rebates from Chrome, Firefox or IE

Remove from Google Chrome

  • In the Main Menu, select Tools—> Extensions
  • Remove any unknown extension by clicking on the little recycle bin
  • If you are not able to delete the extension then navigate to C:\Users\”computer name“\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Extensions\and review the folders one by one.
  • Reset Google Chrome by Deleting the current user to make sure nothing is left behind

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  • If you are using the latest chrome version you need to do the following
  • go to settings – Add person

  • choose a preferred name.

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  • then go back and remove person 1
  • Chrome should be malware free now

Remove from Mozilla Firefox

  • Open Firefox
  • Press simultaneously Ctrl+Shift+A
  • Disable and remove any unknown add on
  • Open the Firefox’s Help Menu

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  • Then Troubleshoot information
  • Click on Reset Firefox

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Remove from Internet Explorer

  • Open IE
  • On the Upper Right Corner Click on the Gear Icon
  • Go to Toolbars and Extensions
  • Disable any suspicious extension.
  • If the disable button is gray, you need to go to your Windows Registry and delete the corresponding CLSID
  • On the Upper Right Corner of Internet Explorer Click on the Gear Icon.
  • Click on Internet options

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  • Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset.

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  • Check the “Delete Personal Settings Tab” and then Reset

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  • Close IE

Permanently Remove Pocket Rebates Leftovers

To make sure manual removal is successful, we recommend to use a free scanner of any professional antimalware program to identify any registry leftovers or temporary files.

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