ShoppingDealsLive Toolbar Removal Guide

ShoppingDealsLive Toolbar is another Mindspark Toolbar that comes forth with the intention to make some easy money for its developers. Of course, the application cannot steal your money or personally identifiable information. But the longer it remains on your computer, the bigger is the possibility that you will be exposed to potentially corrupted content. Thus, you should see to it that you remove ShoppingDealsLive Toolbar from your computer as soon as possible. While you are at it, please consider scanning your computer with a licensed antispyware application that will help you locate other potential threats and remove them immediately.

At the first glance, it might seem that the extension is really useful because it should help you find the best deals online. If you are an avid online shopper, you are probably interested in buying various things for a lower price. And so, ShoppingDealsLive Toolbar may look like a good tool. However, when a tool enters your system accidentally, it is rather doubtful whether you should keep it. After all, we usually install programs when we want them, but if an application gets installed on your PC accidentally, then it would definitely be a good idea to remove it for good.

As mentioned, ShoppingDealsLive Toolbar is a Mindspark Toolbar, and we have been dealing with applications from this family for many years now. Most of them come from individual websites with specific functions, and if users do not get exposed to such programs often, they might as well think that the applications may provide them with useful service, thus enhancing their online activities. But that is quite far from the truth because such potentially unwanted programs usually employ third-party advertising to generate financial profit. Of course, there is nothing illegal about such practice, but ShoppingDealsLive Toolbar and other similar programs cannot guarantee your safety when you get redirected to a third-party website.

What’s more, when ShoppingDealsLive Toolbar is added to your browser, the extension will change your default search engine settings. It will also start using tracking cookies to collect information on which websites you visit and what search keywords you use on a regular basis. Such information is necessary to generate a custom commercial content that you might want to interact with. And if you see a link or an advertisement that you want to click, and you click it, you help the people behind ShoppingDealsLive Toolbar make money.

The problem in this scheme is that potentially unwanted programs have no power over what kind of content gets embedded in the links they promote. If cyber criminals decide to make use of these applications, they could easily turn ShoppingDealsLive Toolbar into a medium for malware distribution, and you would not even understand what hit you.

So before any of this happens, you have to make sure that you do not keep unwanted applications on your computer. Please follow the instructions below to remove ShoppingDealsLive Toolbar from your system. After manual removal, scan your computer with a licensed security application because you are bound to have more unwanted applications on-board.

How to Remove ShoppingDealsLive Toolbar

Firefox

1. Press Alt+T and click Add-ons.
2. Open the Extensions tab and remove the application.

Chrome

1. Press Alt+F and click More tools.
2. Go to Extensions and delete the application.

Internet Explorer

1. Press Win+R and type Control Panel. Click OK.
2. Go to Uninstall a program (Add or remove programs for Windows XP).
3. Remove ShoppingDealsLive Internet Explorer Homepage and New Tab.