What is BestDeal?
BestDeal is a software program, categorized a an adware or advertisement enabled program, designed to promote electronic commercial products and sites. Since BestDeal is an adware program it will most probably collect users’ internet activity information, such as browsing history, bookmarks added, forms data, search queries, and what is most frustrating, it will redirect users’ search queries to promoted sites. Technically, BestDeal is not a virus, but it has been added to potentially unwanted programs list, this is why security experts recommend avoiding it.
How BestDeal gets on your PC?
First of all, some users install BestDeal considering it as a reliable shopping helper. Second method is so called “bundling”, when a program is installed on to a computer along with another freeware or shareware program. In this case there is a risk of being hijacked with another malware program. Usually it happens, when users, don’t pay much attention on, what they are downloading and installing. To avoid that, security experts strongly recommend to stay alert online and watch your downloads and installations.
How to remove BestDeal from your computer?
To uninstall BestDeal remove it from Control Panel, then delete all files and regkeys.
In our view, there are 3 products that potentially have BestDeal in their database. You can try to use them for removing BestDeal.
Recommended Solution:
Norton is a powerful removal tool. It can remove all instances of newest viruses, similar to BestDeal – files, folders, registry keys.
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Alternative Solution:
Norton Antivirus – detects files, registry values and folders of viruses that show the same behavior as BestDeal.
You can try both of these products to remove BestDeal
Or uninstall BestDeal manually.
Step 1: Remove BestDeal from Control Panel
Windows XP:
- Click Start.
- Control Panel.
- Then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Find BestDeal.
- Click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows XP.
Windows 7/Windows Vista:
- Click Start.
- Then Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a Program.
- Find BestDeal and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 7.
Windows 8/Windows 8.1:
- Open the Menu.
- Click Search.
- After that click Apps.
- Then Control Panel.
- Then as in Windows 7, click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
- Find BestDeal, select it and click Uninstall.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 8 (8.1).
Windows 10:
- Click on the Start button (or press the Windows key) to open the Start menu, click on the Settings at the top.
- Click on App & features on the left menu.
- On the right side, locate BestDeal and click it, then click on the Uninstall button.
- Click on Uninstall to confirm.
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Windows 10
Note: If you can’t find required program, sort programs by date in Control panel and search for last installed programs.
After that remove BestDeal from your browser.
Step 2: Remove BestDeal from browsers
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find BestDeal.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose BestDeal.
- Click Disable or Remove button.
Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.
Internet Explorer:
- Open IE.
- Push Alt + T.
- Click Manage Add-ons.
- Select Toolbars and Extensions.
- Click Disable BestDeal.
- Click More information link in the left-bottom corner.
- Click Remove button.
- If this button is grayed out – perform alternative steps.
Learn more about removing extensions from IE.
Step 3: Remove following files and folders of BestDeal:
Remove following registry entries:
no information
Remove following files:
BestDeal.dll
Remove following folders
%PROGRAMFILES%\BestDeal\
Information provided by: Alexey Abalmasov