PrivateMacDeal - How to remove

PrivateMacDeal is described as an useful and powerful tool, that will help users to save their time and money when shopping online by displaying various deals, coupons and commercial offers. Here is a description from their official website at http://privetemacdeal.info/index.html: “When you want to find the best coupon deals and sales, PrivateMacDeal can help you find them. This is an add-on which works in the background while you browse online. Its as if it is not even there. You just pull up the coupons and print them when you are through.” As you can see, it works as a browser add-on that can be added to all most popular web browsers, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Safari.

Once installed, it will display ads in all kinds of forms, such as banner, pop-up, pop-under or in-text ads. Those ads can be really annoying and distractive, so it will be more complicated to browse the Internet. Moreover, they can lead you to malicious third parties websites that may be infected by cyber criminals, such as hackers and scammers. That’s why you should not click on any of those ads. It’s not difficult to indicate if ad is displayed by PrivateMacDeal, because it is usually labeled with a slogan “Ads by PrivateMacDeal”. Sometimes it can be hard not to click on those ads, because they look very attractive. They offer you to purchase some particular products or services at an appealing price rite. But you should not believe that because usually it is just a trick to get you interested – there may be no product at all. And it’s the main goal of PrivateMacDeal – to make you click on those ads. They generate web traffic and collect sales leads and make money this way. Those ads can look so appealing and relevant to you because PrivateMacDealo tracks your web browsing and collects you private information. Read about it at their privacy policy:

Data Collection

1.We may collect certain information about your web usage and websites you have visited, which may be shared with third parties and used for advertising.

NOTE:-The plugin and other services collect and stores information concerning the web pages you visit and your activity on those pages, such as impressions, clicks and search terms. In some cases, information collected by the plugin and other services may be personally identifiable, and in some cases information (including information from or about pages of social media websites you visit) may be used or shared with third parties for purposes of displaying targeted advertisements promotional and marketing material to you.

Data Usage

Information we collect from you may be used in any of the following ways:

1.To personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs).

2.To improve our Plugin and other Services (we continually strive to improve our application offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you).

3.To improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support your needs).

4.To process transactions.

5.To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other Site features.

6.To send periodic emails (the email address you provide for order processing, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, etc.).

This means various information, such as browsing history, search queries, top visited sites, your email and IP addresses, information about your software and hardware will be collected. They adjust they ads according to that information and make them super attractive tot you this way.

The name of this application can be misleading – PrivateMacDeal was not designed just for Mac computers, it can successfully infect computers running Windows operating system as well. And by saying “infect” I mean it’s distribution method. This PUP (potentially unwanted program) is distributed the same way as most other adware – bundled with freeware. So if you want to avoid getting infected with PrivateMacDeal, be very attentive during the installation of various freebies. Opt out for a custom or advanced install mode and do not skip any of steps. This will allow you to see all available options. If you notice that some additional software is being installed – do not allow it, as it can be PrivateMacDeal or other malware. In case it is too late and your computer is already infected, you should download a trustworthy anti-malware, such as Spyhunter, or Malwarebytes. Scan your computer with it and it will automatically remove all unwanted applications. If you are not into downloading some additional software to perform this, you can do it manually as well. Just follow our step-by-step PrivateMacDeal removal guide given below.

How to uninstall PrivateMacDeal adware

How to remove PrivateMacDeal using Windows Control Panel

Many hijackers and adware like PrivateMacDeal install some of their components as regular Windows programs as well as additional software. This part of malware can be uninstalled from the Control Panel. To access it, do the following.

• Start→Control Panel (older Windows) or press Windows Key→Search and enter Control Panel and then press Enter (Windows 8, Windows 10).
• Choose Uninstall Program (if you don't see it, click in the upper right next to "View by" and select Category).
• Go through the list of programs and select entries related to PrivateMacDeal . You can click on "Name" or "Installed On" to reorder your programs and make PrivateMacDeal easier to find.
• Click the Uninstall button. If you're asked if you really want to remove the program, click Yes.
• In many cases anti-malware programs are better at detecting related parasites, thus I recommend installing Spyhunter to identify other programs that might be a part of this infection.

TopRemoving PrivateMacDeal from Safari (Mac OS X)

• Click on the Safari menu.
• Choose Preferences.
  
• Click on the Extensions Tab.
• Click on the Uninstall button near the PrivateMacDeal. Remove all other unknown or suspicious entries too. If you are not sure whether you need the extension or not, you can simply uncheck the Enable check-box to disable the extension temporarily.
  
• Restart Safari.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to PrivateMacDeal, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the Safari menu on the top left corner of the screen. Select Reset Safari.
  
• Select which options you want to reset (usually all of them come preselected) and click on the Reset button.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving PrivateMacDeal from Firefox

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla window and select the “Add-ons” icon (or press Ctrl+Shift+A on your keyboard).
  
• Go through Extensions and Addons list, remove everything PrivateMacDeal related and items you do not recognise. If you do not know the extension and it is not made by Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Oracle or Adobe then you probably do not need it.
  

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings If you are still experiencing any issues related to PrivateMacDeal, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Mozilla Firefox window. Click on the Help button.
  
• Choose Troubleshooting Information on the Help menu.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button.
  
• Click on the Reset Firefox button on the confirmation box. Mozilla Firefox will close and change the settings to default.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

TopRemoving PrivateMacDeal from Chrome

• Click on the menu button on the top right corner of a Google Chrome window. Select “Settings”.
  
• Click “Extensions” on the left menu bar.
• Go through the extensions list and remove programs you do not need, especially similar to PrivateMacDeal. Click on the trash bin icon next to PrivateMacDeal or other add-ons you want to remove.
  
• Press on the “Remove” button on the Confirmation window.
  
• If unsure, you can disable them temporarily.
  
• Restart Chrome.

(Optional) Reset your browser’s settings

If you are still experiencing any issues related to PrivateMacDeal, reset the settings of your browser to its default settings.

• Click on Chrome’s menu button (three horizontal lines) and select Settings.
  
• Scroll to the end of the page and click on the Reset settings button.
  
• Click on the Reset button on the confirmation box.
  

If you cannot reset your browser settings and the problem persists, scan your system with an anti-malware program.

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