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Danger level 5
Type: Adware

Search Deals

Search Deals presents itself as a browser plugin that adds amazing deals to your search engine. It means that this browser extension is supposed to help you save money by providing you with the best coupon deals for your online purchases. It should be a useful and helpful application, but the problem is that such browser extensions are often blamed for possible security risks and they are considered potentially unwanted programs. Therefore, if it was not your initial intention to install this plugin, remove Search Deals from your computer to make sure that you will not be exposed to malware.

Even if Search Deals get onto your browser accidentally (which may happen if it comes bundled with freeware applications), an average computer user would be possible bound to leave the plugin there, because it does not absorb system resources and does not slow down the Internet speed. However, leaving the plugin on your browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome) means that you allow Search Deals continue gathering information on your web browsing habits. The fact that the plugin collects such data is obvious; because it needs it display coupon deals and offers that would be related to your overall shopping likes and preferences.

Luckily, Search Deals does not modify your default search engine and home page address, but there are other risks associated with this browser extension. It is very likely that the plugin does not review the coupon deals and third party commercial advertisements it displays for you. It means that Search Deals could be exploited by cyber hackers, and they could embed ads with links to corrupted websites.

Therefore, although Search Deals is not a computer infection on its own, in the long run it may become indirectly responsible for a malicious infection, and so it is important that you remove Search Deals form your computer right now. Since this plugin can be uninstalled via Control Panel, you can easily delete it on your own. Just follow the instructions below.

How to remove Search Deals

Windows 8

  1. Move mouse cursor to the bottom right of the screen.
  2. Click Settings and go to Control Panel.
  3. Open Uninstall a program and remove Search Deals.

Windows Vista & Windows 7

  1. Open Start menu and click Control Panel.
  2. Go to Uninstall a program and remove Search Deals.

Windows XP

  1. Open Start menu and go to Control Panel.
  2. Select Add or remove programs and uninstall Search Deals.

Once you have removed Search Deals manually, run a full PC scan with SpyHunter free scanner in order to make sure that you have no other potentially dangerous programs on your PC. Invest in a legitimate computer safeguard application if need be.

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