Remove Ads by DealScout

How can I disable the pop-ups from DealScout? I don’t know how this thing cancome to my computer without my notice. I have anti-virus program installed on my machine, but it can find nothing harmful. Isn’t this stuff a virus? I can’t tell where it locates as I’m not a computer savvy, what can I do? The pop-ups are really annoying, I can feel that my machine is slower and slower now. Please help!

Brief Introduction to This Program

DealScout is a new designed program that can generate lots of online advertisements and E-coupons to the computers. However, the essence of this thing is a computer threat that uses the pop-ups to damage the infected computers so that it can help cyber hackers to achieve illegal benefits. It is also called potentially unwanted program or browser hijacker. What make the situation worse is that it is not a computer virus that can be detected by security tools. Under this case, this computer infection can be capable to sneak into target computers without being known by computer users. Once this computer threat comes to the target computers, it can cause plenty of unwanted problems to the browsers installed and the entire systems.

The Screenshot of This Hijacker

Not being detected by security tools, this DealScout hijacker can be widely implanted on the Internet by cyber hackers. When people come to the corrupted pages, their browsers can be added evil plug-ins automatically. It is not easy for users to distinguish the add-ons are good or bad as cyber hackers can forge them with different misleading names. Also, this hijacker can be bundled with other programs, when people download the programs that have this hijacker implanted onto their machines, after they install the problematic programs to the computers, their systems can be attacked by this hijacker right away.

When this DealScout infiltrates target computers, people will not notice that they have this problem on their machines as anti-virus programs cannot detect it as a virus. System registry can be damages by this hijacker’s data as it can mess up the system settings. In this case, this hijacker can be activated from the startup, which means that users will get disturbed by this hijacker whenever they boot up the infected computers. It will generate tons of irrelevant pop-ups to users, and the performance of the infected computers can be slowed down rapidly as the pop-ups can waste a large part of CPU resource on the background. With the help of this DealScout, cyber criminals can be able to collect privacy information saved on the infected computers for illegal goals.

The properties of Browser Hijacker

-Can not be detected by your anti-virus software, which makes it hard to uninstall from the computer.
-Once you open your browser, you will be redirected to some unknown websites.
-Can slow down the performance of the computer, or even blue screen.
-Can pop up many unwanted advertisements when you are doing something else.
-Can change your settings in your browser and it is not easy to change it back.

If you find any symptoms listed above showing on your computer, then your computer must be suffered with a browser hijacker that causes you keep being redirecting to this DealScout. Welcome to contact YooSecurity Online PC Experts for manual removal guide. Also, we will provide a short removal guide below for computer literate.

NOTE: Being afraid to do any wrong operation during the process of removing this browser hijacker? Please contact YooSecurity Online PC Experts, we are here to help you:

Manual Removal Guide of Browser Hijacker (For Computer Literate)

There is a removal guide of Browser Hijacker provided here; however, expertise is required during the process of removal, please make sure you are capable to do it by yourself.

Step 1: Find Ctrl, Alt, and Delete these 3 keys and then press them together to open task manager to end the process related to this hijacker, the name of the process of it is random.

Step 2: Try to find Folder Options in Control Panel, select the View tab, and then tick Show hidden files and folders and non-tick Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) and then click OK.

Step 3: Click on Start button at the right lower corner, then click on Control Panel

Then you will come to the Control Panel windows, click on Add and Remove Programs

Then try to find the program which relates to this browser hijacker, highlight it and choose Remove, the program’s name is random.

Step4: Change your homepage in your browser (Take Internet Explorer as an Example)

From the Navigation toolbar in Internet Explorer, click Tools and select Internet Options.

Then type the URL you want into the Home page box and then click OK

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Conclusion:

DealScout is not a good program that can provide legit ads to users. It is classified to be a browser hijacker that can damage the infected systems from many aspects. Once it comes to target computers, it can change the default homepage and search engine of the browsers to be some dangerous pages that can contain other kinds of computer malware. If this hijacker cannot be removed in time, the condition of the infected computers can be worse and worse as more viruses can come.

Suggestion: To follow removal guide that mentioned above, a level of computer knowledge is needed. Still can’t get out of DealScout? Contact online experts for help now!

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on September 29, 2015 1:10 pm