DealPly - How to remove

DealPly is an e-commerce shopping platform that started in 2011 and it obtains most of its visitors from the United States, Germany, and Spain. It’s also a browser add-on that works on Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. DealPly is supposed to help you find deals online, but it ended up being adware. Many reputable antivirus programs warn users to stay away from DealPly.

Details about DealPly and its removal:

Classification	Adware, trojan.
Symptoms of a DealPly infection	Pop-ups labeled with DealPly, random redirects in the browser, more ads than usual.
Distribution and infection	Bundled with normal free programs and installed in the background, uploaded on download sites, downloaded on its own.
Remove DealPly adware	Use antivirus programs to remove malware (SpyHunter for PC, Combo Cleaner for Mac, Malwarebytes), Uninstall the DealPly application and browser extension manually.

More details about this ad-based browser app

DealPly’s creators say that its purpose is to help you save money:

As you browse online shopping sites, DealPly may detect the product or service you are browsing for and automatically present you with exclusive shopping offers that are relevant to you. Such offers will be presented to you at the bottom of the webpage you are viewing, and they will be provided by third party vendors, enable you to make use of such offers – as further explained below.

Some people used to find Dealply useful, but over time, it has morphed into adware and labeled “potentially unwanted program (PUP)” and “adware”. The reasons – it shows unwanted ads and gets installed dishonestly. This blog post by malware researchers exposed just how sophisticated and sneaky DealPly is during installation. It even checks if it’s running on a virtual machine – a tactic used by malware to avoid researchers’ detection.

DealPly spreads by being bundled with legitimate, attractive, and free software. It gets uploaded on download sites and is available for anyone to download. If you run such an installer, DealPly runs in the background, without even warning you. Then, it starts showing pop-up ads, redirecting your links, and injecting unwanted content into your webpages that you open.

If a person doesn’t want to see even more ads during browsing, they won’t care that DealPly is, supposedly, trying to find them better prices. Especially as the offered deals will be affiliated with DealPly. They’ll just be annoyed by the ads.

DealPly is distributed with a bunch of different third-party software that has nothing to do with coupons, ads, or anything remotely similar. Apps like “Video converter” and “Image Editor” get bundled with adware. If you don’t scan these installers after downloading them, that could cause problems.

Besides, DealPly’s ads are way too many and too aggressive. Even if one was interested in using it to find smaller prices, it’s just too in-your-face. Many of the pop-ups by DealPly are not related to online shopping or show up at inconvenient moments. They cover up important content and one has to waste their time closing each of them.

DealPly is similar to other adware, like Widgi toolbars, GreatDealz, SelectionLinks, etc. Many programs out there make money off of injecting ads into your browser.

DealPly is an adware that is installed to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome while you are installing some other software from the Internet. It used to be one of those applications that you could choose whether to download or not at one of the last steps of other software installations. You would usually be asked to select which other components you wish to install. The trick that distributors use is adding additional programs by default and “agreed” to that by not taking the checkmarks off. If you skipped this step and left the ticks on, Dealply would be downloaded automatically. But it’s also possible that Dealply doesn’t even show up during set up and gets installed automatically.

In some cases, trojans, aka malicious programs disguised to perform a useful function, are used to distribute DealPly. e.g. in June 2013, we saw some fake download sites that distributed “downloader” for various software. The latter did not perform its function but distributed Dealply only. All downloads magically stopped at 30% of completion, but the adware was still installed on PCs.

Once it’s installed, Dealply starts displaying ads on popular websites that you load up, such as, Amazon, eBay, and Walmart. These ads contain coupons and discounts, however, they’re often totally unrelated to what you’re shopping for. They’re labeled as “brought by Dealply”, “powered by Dealply”, and so on.

Besides, DealPly collects information about your browsing habits and later uses this data for marketing purposes. Additionally, it may redirect you to malicious websites that are full of infections and that could cause harm to your system. It’s clearly an unwanted program and you should remove it without any hesitation.

How to remove DealPly adware

Try looking for anything related to DealPly in Windows Control Panel/Mac OS’ Applications folder and uninstall it from there. If you don’t find anything there or the same ads still bother you after uninstalling the application, we recommend scanning your system with a reputable antispyware program. DealPly needs to be thoroughly removed, or else it will keep returning.

Please note that not all antimalware tools have the feature of detecting such type of applications. We recommend using Spyhunter for Windows, Combo Cleaner for Mac OS, or Malwarebytes. They should not only detect and remove DealPly automatically, but also scan your computer and locate any other unwanted applications that might have come to your system with it.

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