Remove Great Find Ads from Chrome/Firefox/IE

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Great Find is an adware tool. It’s a potentially unwanted program that makes grand promises but delivers on neither one of them. The application claims to be useful and help you save a ton of money. Supposedly, it shows you all of the best deals and bargains via its pop-up ads, and if you take advantage of them, you end up increasing your savings. That sounds incredible, right? Well, it’s nothing more than a marketing ploy. These are merely empty promises. If you are foolish enough to click on even a single ad the program displays, you won’t save any money, but will end up installing more unwanted malware on your computer. And, that’s not even the worst part of having Great Find on your system. The most unfavorable issue you’ll be faced with, courtesy of the program, will be the security risk it places upon you. Oh, yes. The tool spies on you in an attempt to steal your personal and financial information, so it can then provide it to the people behind it. Make no mistake! If you don’t take any actions towards its removal, it WILL be successful. Are you ready to hand your private life to strangers with questionable intentions? It’s up to you to decide whether or not this useless, hazardous tool is worth the risk.

How did I get infected with?

Great Find prays on your naivety, haste, and distraction. Its easiest and most preferred access point is through freeware. That’s because users tend to rush through its installation, which allows adware such as Great Find to slip right through the cracks, and sneak in undetected. For some reason, they purposely choose NOT to read the terms and conditions, and instead agree to everything in haste. That proves to be a horrible decision with horrendous repercussions. But by the time they realize that, the damage is already done. Other means of invasion, the application often resorts to include hiding behind corrupted sites or links, or spam email attachments. Also, the tool can pretend to be a false update, like Java or Adobe Flash Player. Always remember to be extra careful and to not rush, and maybe you won’t get stuck with such a hazardous infection, and be forced to deal with its daily messes.

Why are these ads dangerous?

Great Find is a dangerous and damaging tool. It’s a threat not to be taken lightly as it can create quite the mess once it enters your system. The first problem it will present you with will be the overwhelming annoyance of the incessant appearance of its pop-ups. But the ads won’t simply annoy you to no end. Oh, no. They’ll also lead to more trouble. Due to their continuous disturbance, your computer’s performance will slow down to a crawl, and your system will frequently crash. What’s more, as the pop-ups are immensely unreliable, they’ll also present you with a severe malware threat. If you’re foolish enough to click on even a single ad the program throws at you, you WILL unwillingly agree to install more malevolent tools. But even that pales in comparison to the security risk. Save yourself a ton of grievances and headaches, and delete Great Find as soon as it first reveals itself! That way you’ll avoid the entire myriad of issues mentioned above. Remember, this program is NOT worth even half the hassle it causes, so remove it at once. Your future self will be thankful for it.

How Can I Remove Great Find Ads?

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

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

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

STEP 1 : Uninstall Great Find from Your Computer

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

Type “Appwiz.cpl”

Locate the Great Find 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 Find 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 Find 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.