Unideals

[Bo Borland]

Wiz

I downloaded a vhs to dvd program from cnet .. and it appears to have been bundled with the unideals adware.
I have not been able to uninstall it. It doesn't show up in firefox where i can find it and in IE

Name UniDeals
Publisher Control name is not available
Status Enabled
Load time 0.01 s

is all i can find.. i can't disable it..
HITMAN PRO couldnt do it, neither could SPYBOT or MALWARE BYTES ..

any ideas?

[John Booth]

Don't buy the software suggested in this link, just follow the instructions lower down the page
http://pcfixhelp.net/ads/602-how-to-re ... ie-firefox

[Bo Borland]

Thanks John

The directions for Chrome worked OK
In FireFox I was able to disable it but the rest option was not available in the browser new tab url line
and in IE the disable line is not available..

one link found 50 PUPS but the one i was looking for was not listed and they still wanted $$$

[Bo Borland]

Well it took a couple hours of work but , it's gone.. from my three browsers.. IE was the toughest to clean ..

ccleaner , hitman, spybot , malware bytes .. it took all of them ..

[Mitch Drumm]

Five years ago, CNET was a tolerable place to find programs.

Since then, it has deteriorated and many to most of its available downloads are contaminated, as you found.

The best idea is to try to download the application directly from the author's site, although in some cases that can be doctored as well.

You can try this location, which tries to provide stuff without added goodies:

https://ninite.com/

Or investigate "Unchecky", a program designed to reveal and "uncheck" the options in the installer that lead to unwanted add-ons. But I've heard it is not fool-proof as well.

[Ken Lang]

Do not download ninte on a win 7 computer. It has screwed up mine so bad I'm gonna have toke it somewhere to be fixed.