Information about one of the ActiveDiscount victims:
Operating system: Windows 7, 64-bit(x64)
Infection date and initial symptoms: Almost a week ago. But ActiveDiscount went away somehow not sure its showing up again and making new tabs.
Current issue and symptoms: ads show on all web pages and ActiveDiscount opens new tabs constantly.
ActiveDiscount Description
ActiveDiscount is known as a nasty adware which can inject advertises on the following browsers without users' agreement: Opera, Firefox, Google Chrome, Bing, Internet Explorer and others. Web browser default setting are absolutely modified by ActiveDiscount, which is in order to clear obstacles on the way of automatically popping up ads. Therefore, you will be constantly bothered by the aggressive ads every time you lunch the browser or download a webpage.
The prices of having ActiveDiscount
@ Price 2: endless advertises and redirecting. Numerous and unstoppable pop-ups are displayed on the webpage. Random words on the webpage can be underlined with double blue or green lines and generate advertising hyperlinks, which will redirect you to malicious websites or spam websites.
@ Price 3: outrageous additional threats . Additional infections like browser hijacker Bikiniland, adware Unisales, trojan Syswow64, ransomware Cryptowall are possible to get on your PC easily and manipulate PC system and the browser.
@ Price 4: clumsy computer. You will be pissed off by the slow PC. It spends more time reacting including downloading a webpage, startup and executing a program.
How to Remove ActiveDiscount Out of Your Browser?
Plan A: Remove ActiveDiscount Manually from Your Computer
Note: in case ads by ActiveDiscount or redirects from ActiveDiscount block the computer screen or the PC performs badly, you are suggested to get into safe mode with networking before you try to remove ActiveDiscount.
Get Into Safe Mode with Networking Processes:
for Windows XP/Vista/ 7
Restart your computer >> As your computer restarts but before Windows launches, tap “F8″ key constantly >> Use the arrow keys to highlight the “Safe Mode with Networking” option and then press ENTER >> If you don’t get the Safe Mode with Networking option, please restart the computer again and keep tapping "F8" key immediately.
Pls press Alt+Ctrl+Delete keys together
You will see a blue screen with a power icon at the bottom right corner
Pls hold Shift key on the keyboard and click on power button and select “Restart”
Then you will get 3 options
Pls select “Troubleshoot” with arrow keys
You will then get into another screen with another 3 options
Then select “Advanced options” -> Pls select “Startup Settings”
See a “Restart” button at the bottom right of the screen?
Pls hit F5 to get into “Safe Mode with Networking”
- Click Start and then choose Control Panel.
- Click Programs> Uninstall a program or Program and Features(for Windows 7,8, Vista)
- search for the unwanted or unknown programs; right click it and then choose Uninstall.
2. Remove ActiveDiscount from the browsers.
2.1 Remove ActiveDiscount add-ons from Internet Explorer
- Open Internet Explorer then go to Tools menu (press “F10″ key once to active menu bar) and then click on Internet Option a configuration page will be opened
- Click on Programs tab then click on Manage Add-ons, now you’ll get a window which have listed all the installed add-ons.
- Now disable the ActiveDiscount add-on, also disable all the unknown / unwanted add-ons from this list.
2.2 Reset Internet Explorer
- Open Internet Explorer. Click on Tools menu (Press “F10” key once to active the menu bar), click on Internet Option. A internet option window will open.
- For IE9, IE10 users may click on Gear icon . Then click on tools.
- Click on Advanced tab then click on RESET button.
- Now you will get a new popup for confirmation, tick mark on Delete personal setting then click on RESET button on that.
- Now your Internet Explorer has been Restored to default settings.
- Now you will appear a popup stated “complete all the tasks”. After completion click on close button.
- Start Google Chrome, click on options icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), then click on Tools then, click on Extensions.
- You will get a configuration page which have listed all the installed extensions, remove ActiveDiscount extension. Also remove all the unknown / unwanted extensions from there. To remove them, click on remove (recycle bin) icon (as shown on screenshot)
- Open Google Chrome, click on menu icon and then click on settings
- Scroll down and click on “Show advanced settings…”option, after click on that you’ll appear some more options in bottom of the page. Now scroll down more and click on “Reset Browser setting” option.
- Now, Close all Google Chrome browser’s window and reopen it again.
Open Firefox and then go the Tools menu (Press “F10” key once to active Menu bar) click on Add-ons, you’ll get a page click on extensions from the left side pane. now look on right side pane you’ll get all the installed add-ons listed on there. Disable or Remove ActiveDiscount add-on, also disable all the unknown / unwanted add-ons from there.
2.6 Reset Mozilla Firefox
- Open Firefox and then go the Help menu (Press “F10” key once to active Menu bar)
- Go to Help menu then click on “Troubleshooting information
- You will get a page “Troubleshooting information” page, here you will get “Reset Firefox” option in the right side of the page.
- Click on Reset Firefox option and then follow their instructions to reset firefox.
- Mozilla Firefox should be Restored.
3. To Remove ActiveDiscount from Startup
- Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) you will get Run box then type “MSCONFIG into the run box then click on OK. You’ll get a msconfig window.
- In the msconfig window click on Startup tab, here you’ll get all the startup entries, so look on the list and then do Un-check the entries which is contains ActiveDiscount. Also Un-check all the others entries which you found unwanted. then click on OK to apply all the changes
Plan B: you can remove ActiveDiscount easily just by clicking and clicking again.
- There are 2 selections offered: click Save or Run to install the program. We recommend you to save it on the desktop if you choose Save for the reason that you can immediately start the free scan by using the desktop icon.
- After downloading, double click the downloaded file and follow the prompts to install the removal tool.
2. Installing the strong removal tool needs your permission, please click Run.
Click Continue to get the Install option
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Important Note
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( Kris )
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