Remove WinDealist Virus (Removal Help)

On Dec 3, 2013

Question

I got WinDealist on my computer, How do I Remove WinDealist virus (Removal Help)?

Remove-WinDealist

Solved Answer.

WinDealist is an adware program that displays lots of advertisements, sponsored links through a pop up box on Facebook, Amazon, Google and when you visiting other shopping websites. It can install in all popular web browsers including Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari etc.

Once WinDealist is installed into your computer, you will be found lots of changes in your browser and internet settings. When you visit shopping websites and move mouse on the image of products, WinDealist will show a similar button which gives you the full information about the select product. After this, WinDealist will create a drop down list containing lots of coupons & advertisements. WinDealist purports to motivate computer users to buy the advertised products. It can also perform all their tasks with all operating system including windows xp, vista, 7 and windows 8.

You may be downloading WinDealist from their official website because it saves money while shopping online, or you may have got it bundled with some fake update or free download you installed on your computer from internet. So you should pay attention, when you download a free software packages from internet. Be very careful what you agree to install.

WinDealist is not a virus in technical terms. However, it does exhibit plenty of malicious traits, such as rootkit capabilities to hook deep into the computer. Generally, it is categorized as a “PUP” (Potentially Unwanted Program).

To secure your web browser, so you should immediately uninstall WinDealist from your computer. To get rid of this unwanted program, you need to delete WinDealist manually and the following steps will help you.

Steps

Step 1 : To Uninstall WinDealist from computer

Click on Start button and then click on Control Panel.
Now click on Programs –> Program and Features –> Uninstall a program (Wind7, 8, Vista).

Uninstall a program image 1 — Uninstall a program for Vista, 7, 8

For Windows XP users click on Add/Remove Programs.

Uninstall a program image 2 — Uninstall a program for Windows xp

You will get a window which have listed all the installed programs.
Uninstall the programs, if you find any, from below list (Suspicious Programs list). Because all these programs are unwanted. You should uninstall all them immediately.

Suspicious Programs list

WinDealist
Browser defender
Browser protect
Browser protected by conduit
Delta search, Babylon
LessTabs
WebCake 3.0
Yealt
LyricsContainer
VideoSaver
AddLyrics
privacy safe gaurd
unfriend checker
Price peep today
Coupon amazine
TidyNetwork.com
DownloadTerms 1.0
Yontoo
Uninstall all the unwanted programs, which are not listed here.

Automatic Fixit

Download Adware Remover Tool v3.6 to remove WinDealist Automatically from all of you browsers, This is a Freeware utility specially deigned for Adware Removal. This tool can remove adware from Internet Explorer, Firefox, Mozilla Firefox and their registry as well..

Adware-Removal-Tool-v3.6.exe

Step 2 : To Remove WinDealist from Internet Explorer

Remove WinDealist from registry

Click on Start and type Run and then type “REGEDIT” in the run box and then hit enter
In the registry editor go to Edit menu and then click on find option, you will get edit box to search any string to registry editor
Type in the find edit box “WinDealist” and click on Find Next
The search result will highlighted that key which have the same string
Edit that key and change the “WinDealist” string to “google“
Use F3 key to find Next, Replace all them to “google”
Then Restart the internet explorer

Reset Internet Explorer

Open Internet Explorer. Click on Tools menu (If tools menu doesn’t appear then 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. (As shown on below screenshot)

Internet Explorer Reset2

Now you will appear a popup says that complete all the tasks. After completion click on close button.

Step 3 : To Remove WinDealist from Mozilla Firefox

Reset Mozilla Firefox

Open “Troubleshooting information” page into Firefox.
Open Firefox and then go the Help menu (Press “alt” key once to active Menu bar)
Note: you can also open this page in this ways, open Firefox then type this command in the address bar “about:support” (without quote) and then hit enter or OK.
Go to Help menu then click on “Troubleshooting information”
You will get a page “Troubleshooting information”, here you will get “Reset Firefox” option in the right side of the page.
Click on Reset Firefox option, It will take time to reset

Firefox Reset1

Firefox Reset2

Step 4 : To Remove WinDealist from Google Chrome

Remove unwanted homepage & search engine from Google Chrome

Start Google Chrome, click on options icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), click on Settings. You will get a configuration page.
Under configuration page find a option named as “Open a specific page or set of pages” click on their Set Pages. A another window will come up. Here you will appear the bunch of URL’s under “Set pages”. Delete all them and then enter only one which you want to use as your home page.

Google Chrome Homepage step1 — Google Chrome Homepage Reset step1

Google Chrome Homepage2 — Google Chrome Homepage reset step 2

In the same configuration page click on Manage search engines button. Delete all the search engines from there, just keep only www.goole.com as your default search Engine.

Google Chrome Homepage3 — Google Chrome search engine step 3

Google Chrome Homepage4 — Google Chrome search engine step 4

Google Chrome Homepage5 — Google Chrome search engine Step5

Remove unwanted extensions from Google Chrome

Start Google Chrome, click on options icon (Located in very top right side of the browser), then click on Tools then, click on Extensions. (As shown on below screenshot)

Google Chrome remove extensions1

You will get a configuration page. which have installed all the extensions, Remove WinDealist extension & also remove all the unwanted extensions from there. To remove them, click on remove (recycle bin) icon (as shown on screenshot)

Google Chrome remove extensions2

Reset Google Chrome

Close all Google Chrome browser
Now open this following path
- Press “window key + R” (Flag sign key + R) , then you will get Run box.
- Copy and Paste this following command in this Run box then hit Enter or OK
- Windows XP
  %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
- Windows 7, 8, Vista
  %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
In the default folder please find a file named as “Preferences“ and now just need to rename this file from “Preferences“ to “Preferences.old“
In the same default folder please find a one more file named as “Web Data“ and now just need to rename this file from “Web Data“ to “Web Data.old“
Now Start your Google chrome.

Step 5 : To remove WinDealist registry entries with Adwcleaner.exe

Here is the proper step-by-step guide to remove any adware from registry, please follow the steps.

5.1 : Download AdwCleaner from the below link.

Click Here to Download: Adwcleaner.exe

5.2 : Run that downloaded file (Adwcleaner.exe).

5.3 : When you get it started, click on scan button to search the WinDealist files and registry entries (As shown below screenshot).

adwcleaner-scanning-process

5.5 : When scanning process will be finished, click on Clean button to delete all the WinDealist files and registry entries (as shown on below screenshot)

adwcleaner-cleanup-process