What is Travel Deals Center?
Do you love to travel? Do you love to snatch good deals for your upcoming vacations? If you do, Travel Deals Center might seem like the perfect addition to your Google Chrome browser. This extension is supposed to provide you with useful travel-related information as well as introduce you to some amazing deals. Although all of this sounds amazing, you also need to think about the extension’s ability to place cookies, track information about your activity, as well as hijack your browser’s New Tab page to expose you to a highly questionable search engine. This is why this seemingly beneficial extension is classified as a potentially unwanted program and why our research team recommends removing it. If you have already decided to delete Travel Deals Center, scroll down to the last section of the article. If you want to learn more about it before you can make a decision about what to do with it, keep reading.
How does Travel Deals Center work?
Potentially unwanted programs are extremely prevalent these days, and Travel Deals Center is not the only one. A few others include Fmovies, Movies123, Stream-me, Search Genie, and so on. These programs often hide behind attractive services to do something fishy. In most cases, an attractive service is meant to distract the user from data tracking, data leaking, and advertising. The suspicious Travel Deals Center uses travel deals as an attractive service, but once the extension is installed, the PUP starts tracking information and introducing the user to third-party links. Whether you download the program from traveldealscenter.co (the download link routes to the Chrome web store installer) or using a bundled downloader, it always acts the same. Of course, if you have been pushed into installing the extension along with other questionable pieces of software, we strongly advise that you inspect your system with a legitimate malware scanner because you do not want to ignore the more serious threats.
When Travel Deals Center is in place, it operates via the New Tab, which is replaced with the PUP’s search engine, traveldealscenter.co/homepage/homepage.html. A pop-up asking to enable notifications shows up right away, and you should think twice before enabling them because you cannot know what kinds of offers you would receive. This is also the reason we do not recommend interacting with the search engine represented by Travel Deals Center. If you do it, you will be exposed to the modified results of Yahoo Search. Even though this search engine is popular among Internet users all around the globe, it is often exploited by hijackers and potentially unwanted programs, and so you must be cautious. A general rule of thumb is that if you are redirected to Yahoo Search via a different search engine, it is best not to use it. According to Anti-Spyware-101.com research team, if you interact with the PUP or its search engine, you fall at risk of having information about you and your browsing activity leaked to unknown parties. If that is not what you want to happen, you should think about deleting the PUP.
How to remove Travel Deals Center
Even if you put the multiple security concerns that our research team has regarding Travel Deals Center, it is important to note that this extension is also not useful. The search engine that the PUP delivers via the New Tab page shows easy-access links to four travel-related websites, but that is it. The extension itself does not offer original content, and it cannot automatically find deals based on your upcoming travel plans. Ultimately, there are multiple reasons to remove Travel Deals Center, and you can choose which one matters to you the most. The guide below can be used to delete the potentially unwanted program manually. While there are quite a few steps, most of them show how to remove unwanted notifications and clear the browsing data to get rid of tracking cookies. These steps should not be skipped. An alternative option is to get rid of the PUP using a reliable anti-malware program. This option is perfect for those who are dealing with multiple unwanted programs and looming security issues.
Delete Travel Deals Center from Google Chrome
- Launch the browser and tap keys ALT and F together.
- Click More tools and then select Extensions.
- Identify the undesirable extension and click Remove.
- Tap ALT and F keys once more and select Settings.
- Scroll down and click Advanced.
- In the Privacy and security menu, click Site Settings.
- Click Notifications and Remove undesirable notifications.
- Go back to Privacy and security and click Clear browsing data.
- Click the Advanced tab at the top.
- Select the time range and boxes and then click Clear data.
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