I’m having difficulty on solving a problem on my laptop. Evert time I turn on my computer and go online, I can always get a lot of ads from something called FunDeals, I don’t know if it is a good or not as I can’t judge it by my own. I can feel that my computer is slower than before, is it caused by the pop-ups? How can I fix it? I need my computer for work, but those ads are too annoying.

Brief Introduction to This Program

If you keep on receiving advertisements from FunDeals, you must be cautious as your computer is in great danger. It is not a legit program that provides online advertising, rather than that, it is classified as a potentially unwanted program. The reason why do we call it like that is because that from the online research, computer users who have this program on their computers have been suffered from a lot of problems with it and it can even help other kinds of computer viruses to come and make the situation worse. In one word, do not try to install this problem on your computer for online convenience, it won’t save any money for your purse, instead, you will get into more troubles.

The Screenshot of This Hijacker

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Being a potentially unwanted program, this FunDeals can easily sneak into target computers than other kinds of computer infection as it is not a computer virus from technical aspect. That’s mean when this adware infiltrates target computers, users will not get any warning about it from their security tools. Cyber hackers can utilize many ways to spread this infection to innocent computer users on the Internet. The most common way is that hackers can bundle this adware into other programs and post them on the web for people to download. Usually, those programs which are commonly used can be the main targets for hackers to corrupt. When people download and install the infected programs on their machines, this adware can be installed in the meanwhile.

As soon as this FunDeals adware comes to the target computers, it can make chaos to the whole system right away. Browsers installed on the infected machines can be modified by it arbitrarily. Default homepage can be changed to be some dangerous pages, and some other browser settings can also be changed. In this case, when people use the broken browser to go online, they can be redirected to many sponsored links which can help hackers fulfill evil purposes. Users can also be lured to buy goods from many unsafe pages which can be phishing websites that can collect financial information from the infected computers.

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 FunDeals. 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.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Conclusion:

This FunDeals adware is a potentially unwanted program that needs to be removed in time. It cannot bring any benefits for computer users when shopping online. With the help of this infection, computer users will get a lot of troubles on their machines. If it stays on the target machines for long time, it can not only mess up the whole system, but also help cyber criminals to steal privacy information from the target computers.

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

Published by Tony Shepherd & last updated on August 7, 2015 1:11 pm

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