Remove Surprise Savings Ads from Chrome/Firefox/IE

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Surprise Savings is a browser application that is designed to provide users with beneficial shopping deals and offers. With Surprise Savings on your browser you will be able to save a lot of money on your online purchases and also you will be able to spend less time on the Internet as all available deals will be presented to you in one place and you will not have to go through different websites in search for them. Still, we do not recommend that you trust the Surprise Savings application because it is ad-supported. Many free applications are ad-supported and this is the exact reason why they should be avoided. Surprise Savings will display tons of third-party ads during your browsing sessions and these ads may expose you to a number of dangerous threats. Therefore, for the sake of your virtual security you should avoid all ads displayed by Surprise Savings. What you should also do is to remove the application from your PC in order to stop the display of potentially dangerous ads.

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How did I get infected with?

If you are interested in the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy of Surprise Savings, you can visit the application’s official representative website – Surprise Savings.com. There is a download button provided at the web page which seems to be working. However, if your PC has any sort of protection, you will be warned against acquiring this software when you click the download button. This is not at all surprising considering the nature of Surprise Savings. Nevertheless, there is a great chance that you did not download Surprise Savings yourself and that you had not even heard about the application before you started seeing ads by it. This is due to the fact that adware is mainly distributed bundled with freeware and it gets installed silently. This is probably how Surprise Savings got installed on your computer as well. If you remember acquiring any free programs prior the appearance of Surprise Savings ads, there is no doubt about how it entered your system. Do not download dubious freeware from questionable file sharing websites in future so that you can prevent installing adware and other infections.

Why are these ads dangerous?

You found out already that the main reason why you should not let Surprise Savings remain on your PC is that the application is ad-supported. This means that in order for it to exist, it receives financial support from third-party advertisers. These third parties use the application’s service to present their content to a bigger audience. That is what the purpose of Surprise Savings ads is – to promote third-party content. Unfortunately, there is no information about this content, so it can practically be of any kind. Clicking Surprise Savings ads will send you to the websites belonging to the application’s third-party sponsors. These websites may be created by cyber criminals, so by landing on one you risk infecting your PC with malware. The consequences that will follow include data and money loss, not to mention the worsened performance of your computer. So, it turns out that Surprise Savings ads are not as harmless as they look. You should know that what the ads are misleading and what they promote is not necessarily what you will discover when you click them. For this reason you should ignore all ads by Surprise Savings and should delete the application generating them because you do not need unreliable programs running on your PC.

How Can I Remove Surprise Savings Ads?

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

STEP 2: Delete Surprise Savings from Chrome, Firefox or IE

STEP 3: Permanently Remove Surprise Savings from the windows registry.

STEP 1 : Uninstall Surprise Savings from Your Computer

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

Type “Appwiz.cpl

Locate the Surprise Savings 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 Surprise Savings 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 Surprise Savings 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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