What is Awesome Dealers?
Awesome Dealers is promoted as a piece of software that can improve the online shopping experience by providing “the best, most relevant deals online.” Users install it expecting that it will meet their all shopping needs, but not all of them find this extension very beneficial. Some users read its description before installing it on their PCs, whereas others find out that it can apply changes to browsers only after installing it. Specifically speaking, it affects only Google Chrome. It is not called a browser hijacker because users allow this add-on to apply changes to their browsers by installing the extension on their computers. If you are sure you have nothing to do with the installation of Awesome Dealers, you should disable it today. You should also remove it if you have not found it beneficial at all. Awesome Dealers is not a malicious application. It is not even a threat. Instead, it is a potentially unwanted program in the form of the browser extension, so its removal should not be complicated at all – you could erase the undesirable extension via the add-ons manager.
What does Awesome Dealers do?
We do not say that Awesome Dealers is a harmful threat; however, we do not know a single reason why you should keep it active if you have not installed it on your computer willingly, or you do not like the changes it has applied to your Google Chrome browser. Research has shown that this piece of software is not as useful as it claims to be. For example, it promises to make it possible to access coupon providers, latest visited shopping websites, major shopping retailers, and best online deals with the click of a button, but the only thing users notice after installing this extension on their computers is the altered settings of their Google Chrome browsers. Speaking specifically, homepages and New Tab URLs are changed to http://www.awesomedealers.com/ext/index.html?cfg=cfgB.json on their browsers. The page set looks like an ordinary search tool with some quick-access buttons below it. You should not blindly use this search tool to perform web searches because it has turned out that it uses the modified Google search engine, which means that you might see some modified search results. Additionally, some information about you might be collected automatically, for example, your search queries might be recorded and your browsing history might end up in the hands of the Awesome Dealers author. Do not worry; Awesome Dealers could not access any sensitive information, but you can still delete it at any time if you do not want it to track you.
Where does Awesome Dealers come from?
If you see Awesome Dealers New Tab next to other Google Chrome extensions in the add-ons manager, there is no doubt that this piece of software is active on your PC, and it is the one responsible for changing the settings of your Google Chrome browser. You could have installed it directly from the Chrome Web Store (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/awesome-dealers-new-tab/enpajkfllpliojnbajpbknfegobfoagn?hl=en); however, if you are 100% sure that you have not installed it willingly on your computer, the chances are high that it has ended up on your PC without your knowledge. Our specialists say that users often install potentially unwanted programs together with other free applications, and, of course, they do not know anything about that. This distribution method is called bundling and, unfortunately, cyber criminals can adopt it to spread other untrustworthy applications too, e.g. adware, browser hijackers, etc. If you do not think that you could protect your system from untrustworthy software all alone, you should let an automated antimalware tool help you. Install only such a security application that could be trusted 100%.
How to remove Awesome Dealers
It is not a huge problem if you have installed Awesome Dealers by mistake, it has affected your Google Chrome browser without your knowledge, or you have simply not found this program very useful because you can disable this piece of software whenever you want to. You do not need to be an expert in malware removal to be able to do this because it is just a potentially unwanted program that can be erased easily through the add-ons manager. If you need some help, you should consult our step-by-step removal guide placed below this article. The potentially unwanted program can be erased automatically as well, but you will first need to install the automated scanner on your computer.
Awesome Dealers removal guide
Google Chrome
- Open Google Chrome.
- Press Alt+F.
- Click More Tools.
- Click Extensions.
- Select Awesome Dealers New Tab.
- Click the Trash button next to the extension.
- Click Remove in the dialog box.
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