DealBrowsing

DealBrowsing is a browser add-on published by Visicom Media Inc. The application is presented as a tool that enables you to get the best coupons, promo codes and various discounts on various online merchants’ websites. The add-on can be downloaded from dealbrowsing.com or alongside freeware. In the case of the latter, computer users very often think that their computers have been infected with a virus or adware. If you have downloaded this application accidentally and want to get rid of it, here you will find out how to remove DealBrowsing from your computer.

DealBrowsing is presented as a partner of eBay, Banana Republic, Symantec, hotels.com., gap.com and many others. In the upper right corner of the screen you will find pop-up window saying, for example, “10 coupons”. In order to view the offers, you have to click the box. When you click the coupon, you will find it is replaced with a box “Activated”. Here are some examples found on the website hotels.com:

View Last Minute Deals
Click the links to view the last minute deals in Europe, Asia, Australia & more and receive huge savings at Hotels.com.

1 Free Night w/ Welcome Rewards
Receive 1 FREE night when you stay 10 nights with the Welcome Rewards at Hotels.com *See site for details.

In addition to these characteristics of DealBrowsing, you should know that third parties pay serve ads and send emails on behalf of the developers of the application. Moreover, according to the Privacy policy, the information about your browsing may be shared with “carefully selected business partners”. If you do not want that Deal Browsing records what you are interested in, remove it from the system right now.

Another thing which you should keep in mind is that DealBrowsing can change your home page. It is important to read the information in the installation wizard as the final window of the installer contains a check box which you should un-tick in order not to have mystart.com set as your home page. This search engine is powered by Yahoo, which means that you will also find some advertisements related to your search keywords.

In order to remove DealBrowsing, follow the instructions provided or simply install a powerful anti-spyware tool so that it can do delete the add-on for you.

DealBrowsing Removal

Windows Vista and Windows 7

1. Open the Start menu.
2. Click Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a program.
4. Double-click DealBrowsing.

Windows XP

1. Open the Start menu and click Control Panel.
2. Click Add or Remove programs.
3. Select DealBrowsing and click the Remove button.

Windows 8

1. Move the mouse over the lower left corner of the screen.
2. Right-click.
3. Click Control Panel.
4. Select Uninstall a program.
5. Double-click the unwanted application.

How to change the home page of your browsers

Internet Explorer

1. Press Alt+T.
2. Click Internet Options.
3. Under the General tab, type a new URL in the Home Page box.
4. Click OK.

Mozilla Firefox

1. Press Alt+T.
2. Click Options.
3. Under the General tab, change the home page and click OK.

Google Chrome

1. Press Alt+F.
2. Click Settings.
3. In the On startup section, click Set pages and set a new startup page.

If you want to make sure that the computer is not affected by any malware, install a free scanner which will scan the system in no time and display the search results.