Remove Dollar Keeper Ads from Chrome/FF/IE

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You will easily recognize Dollar keeper ads because they will be labeled as “Brought by Dollar keeper”, “Powered by Dollar keeper”, etc. These ads will appear on your screen when you visit online shopping websites, but this does not mean that you will not see them on other web pages as well. The ads are generated by the Dollar keeper application which is classified as adware. As you may know already, adware programs are considered to be unreliable and the ads they display should not be trusted. Keep reading to find out why you should avoid Dollar keeper ads and how to deal with the adware application.

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How did I get infected with?

If you look for Dollar keeper’s official website, you may come across Dollar keeper.com. This web page looks rather odd because it only contains a few blog links and a short description saying “best info and savings on the web”. No Privacy Policy or Terms of Use can be found, not to mention a download button. This is not very surprising considering the fact that most of the adware applications are not distributed officially. Dollar keeper must have arrived on your system bundled with free apps, or it might have entered the PC after clicking random ads promoting supposedly useful software. Whatever the case, if you want to prevent the infiltration of applications like Dollar keeper in future, you should choose carefully the programs you download and the ads you click.

Why are these ads dangerous?

Once Dollar keeper gains access to your PC, it installs data tracking cookies to monitor your activity on the web and record information about it. This information is supposed to be used to improve the services of the application, i.e. to provide users with more relevant offers. It is also supposed to be non-personally identifiable which does not necessarily mean that some of your private data will not be collected either. This includes account names, passwords, etc. Since you do not know who the developers of Dollar keeper are, it is better not to trust them with such important details. Another thing you should refrain from doing is clicking the displayed ads. The offers they contain are most likely to be fake and by clicking them you will be redirected to fictitious web stores or to web pages spreading malware. Remove Dollar keeper to stop seeing its annoying ads and to protect your privacy.

How Can I Remove Dollar keeper Ads?

If you perform exactly the steps below you should be able to remove the Dollar keeper 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 Dollar keeper from your Add\Remove Programs

STEP 2: Delete Dollar keeper from Chrome, Firefox or IE

STEP 3: Permanently Remove Dollar keeper from the windows registry.

STEP 1 : Uninstall Dollar keeper from Your Computer

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

Type “Appwiz.cpl

Locate the Dollar keeper 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 Dollar keeper 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

  • 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

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 Dollar keeper 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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