2014年10月12日星期日

How to Uninstall XmacDeal?


What do you know about XmacDeal

XmacDeal is an adware or potentially unwanted program that can target both Mac and Windows operating systems. This adware can attach on your browser as a pesky and annoying extension or add-on. This adware will bring unwanted and annoying pop ups to the browser, such as Google Chrome, Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. XmacDeal adware will get inside the computer systems along with some third party programs by overlooking to the custom installation.

XmacDeal claims to be a useful program to save you time and money when you shopping online. However, XmacDeal is not so useful as it states. It is an adware created by the developers to display a lot of pop up ads on user’s browser to generate web traffics. You should not believe it it. If you download and install the XmacDeal application on your computer, you may find you are in trouble. Once the XmacDeal install successfully, it will add a lot of add-on on your browser.

You may receive a lot of unwanted pop up ads by XmacDeal. It will collect your search keywords and then display related ads, coupons, banners and sponsor links on the websites you are visiting, especially the commercial websites like Walmart, Amazon, Ebay , etc. It is unstoppable and annoying. To stop this annoying pop up of XmacDeal and prevent further damage bring by XmacDeal, you should remove it from your computer as soon as possible.

Harmful properties of XmacDeal

It displays lots of annoying commercial advertisements;
It compromises the browser and read/modify/adds browser cookies;
It may come with spyware or other privacy-invasive software;
It connects to the Internet in order to request data and download files;
It will introduce other computer threats into the computer which damage your computer.

Two effective methods to remove XmacDeal permanently from your computer system

1. Remove XmacDeal manually.

2. Remove XmacDeal by using SpyHunter anti-malware.

Detail instruction:

Method one: Manually remove XmacDeal

Step 1. Reset Internet Explorer by the following guide (take IE as an example):

Open Internet Explorer >> Click on Tools >> Click on Internet Options >> In the Internet Options window click on the Connections tab >> Then click on the LAN settings button>> Uncheck the check box labeled “Use a proxy server for your LAN” under the Proxy Server section and press OK.

Step 2. Show all hidden files and clean all the malicious files.

(1).Click the Start button and choose Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, to find Folder Options then double-click on it.
(2).In the pop-up dialog box, click the View tab and uncheck Hide protected operating system files (Recommended).
(3). Clean all the malicious files about this infection as below.

%AllUsersProfile%\{random.exe\
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\
%AllUsersProfile%\random.exe
%AppData%\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Templates\random.exe
%Temp%\random.exe
%AllUsersProfile%\Application Data\random
Step 3. Delete related malicious registry entries.

Open Registry Editor by pressing Window+R keys together.(another way is clicking on the Start button and choosing Run option, then typing into Regedit and pressing Enter. )

Delete all the vicious registries as below:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\<random>Software
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\supWPM
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Wpm
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main "Default_Page_URL" =
"http://www.<random>.com/?type=hp&ts=<timestamp>&from=tugs&uid=<hard drive id>"
Step 4- Clear all the cookies of your affected web browsers.

Since the tricky virus has the ability to use cookies for tracing and tracking the internet activity of users, it is suggested users to delete all the cookies before a complete removal.

Google Chrome:

Click on the “Tools” menu and select “Options”.
Click the “Under the Bonnet” tab, locate the “Privacy” section and Click the “Clear browsing data” button.
Select “Delete cookies and other site data” and clean up all cookies from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

Click on Tools, then Options, select Privacy
Click “Remove individual cookies”
In the Cookies panel, click on “Show Cookies”
To remove a single cookie click on the entry in the list and click on the “Remove Cookie button”
To remove all cookies click on the “Remove All Cookies button”

Internet Explorer:

Open Internet explorer window
Click the “Tools” button
Point to “safety” and then click “delete browsing history”
Tick the “cookies” box and then click “delete”

Method two: Automatically get rid of XmacDeal with Spyhunter

SpyHunter is a powerful, real-time anti-spyware application that designed to assist the average computer user in protecting their PC from malicious threats like worms, Trojans, rootkits, rogues, dialers, spyware,etc. To keep SpyHunter Anti-malware on your computer is an important way to protect your computer in a good condition. Please find the instruction as follow.

Step one: Click the icon to download SpyHunter removal tool
Step two: Install Spyhunter.

Open spyh File sph-setup-win7 spyhunter installed
Step three: After the installation, run SpyHunter and click “Malware Scan” button to have a full or quick scan on your PC.
Step four: Select the detected malicious files after your scanning and click “Remove” button to clean up all viruses.

Note: Manually removal is not an easy job. It is a complex and tough task only suggested to advanced computer users. If you cannot solve the problem with manual guide, you are highly recommended to download Spyhunter antivirus software here to remove XmacDeal and other threats from your system once for all.

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