Remove Great Deals Ads from Chrome/Firefox/IE

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Great Deals is a potentially unwanted adware program. It’s highly malicious, intrusive, and harmful. It sneaks in undetected by means of deception and finesse, and then causes a whole bundle of troubles. Once the application slithers its way in and latches onto your computer, it starts to wreak havoc, and the issues pile up almost instantaneously. The first and probably most obnoxious one you’ll encounter is the never-ending bombardment of pop-up ads, which the tool will throw your way on a daily basis. Each and every time you try to browse the web, you’ll be greeted by an array of ads. The only way to cease this disturbance is to get rid of the program entirely. If you choose not to, you’re only setting yourself up for a bad time as the vexatious ads popping up incessantly will be the least of your worries. For one, their continuous appearance leads to frequent system crashes and also slows down your computer’s performance to a crawl. Furthermore, the ads are so unreliable that even a single click on a single ad inevitably results in more unwanted malware installs. But even that won’t be your biggest concern. The worst part of having Great Deals on your computer is the fact that it jeopardizes your personal and financial information as it spies on you. The question is, are you going to let a malevolent program steal your private details and hand them to wicked strangers with agendas? It’s up to you.

How did I get infected with?

Great Deals resorts to the usual trickery in order to gain access to your system. It’s highly resourceful and a master in the arts of deceit. In fact, the program is so skilled at slyness and subtlety that it not only manages to dupe you into approving its installation, but also keeps you oblivious to the fact that you did. To do so, the application relies on the old but gold methods of invasion. That includes hiding behind spam email attachments, corrupted links, or websites or hitching a ride with freeware. It can also pose as a bogus system or program update. For example, while you may be utterly convinced that you’re updating your Adobe Flash Player or Java, in actuality, you’re installing a hazardous adware tool. If you wish to NOT get stuck with Great Deals, be sure to not give into distraction, naivety, and haste. They’re not your friends! They’re your enemies, and they will only lead you to regret. Remember that a little extra attention can go a long, long way.

Why are these ads dangerous?

Great Deals’ selling point is that it’s a helpful tool with which you can save money. Supposedly, it provides you with coupons for online sales, and news of various deals and bargains you can take advantage of. However, contrary to what the name suggests, this application does NOT provide you with great deals. Even if it does show you the most amazing offers, they’re still no good for you. Why? Well, because, in order to take advantage of them, you’ll have to click on the pop-up ads that are displaying them. And, unless you WISH to end up unwillingly agreeing to install malware on your computer, you don’t want to do that. The ads Great Deals shows you are so immensely unreliable that even one click on one ad, by choice or accident, results in more unwanted malicious tools infecting your system without you even realizing it. So, do what’s best for your PC, and ignore the pop-ups no matter how enticing they seem! Unfortunately, as was already mentioned, the worst issue you’ll be faced with, courtesy of the program, will be the security risk. As soon as the application slithers its way into your system, it starts spying on you. It keeps track of your browsing activities and catalogs every move you make. When it determines it has collected enough data from you, it proceeds to send it to the third parties that support it. After these individuals have your private information in their hands, they can do with it whatever they please. Are you willing to gamble with your privacy? Protect yourself and your computer, and get rid of Great Deals as soon as possible! You won’t regret it.

How Can I Remove Great Deals Ads?

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

STEP 2: Delete Great Deals from Chrome, Firefox or IE

STEP 3: Permanently Remove Great Deals from the windows registry.

STEP 1 : Uninstall Great Deals from Your Computer

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

Type “Appwiz.cpl”

Locate the Great Deals 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 Great Deals 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.

• 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

• 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

• Select the Advanced tab and click on Reset.

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

• Close IE

Permanently Remove Great Deals 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.