What is ShoppingDealsLive?
ShoppingDealsLive is a browser add-on that supposedly improves user’s experience on the Web. However, its way of spreading makes us understand that we are dealing with another browser hijacker. So if you are seeing that your homepage has been changed, then you just failed to disable optional ShoppingDealsLive installation offered by the download client that comes with a free program from the Internet. It’s not a dangerous virus, rather, it is very unpleasant malware which is not so easy to get rid of. In addition to irrelevant search results, it’s able to cause redirects to potentially unwanted domains as well as display numerous pop-up ads. Below you will find step-by-step instructions to remove Shoppingdealslive.com from MacOS devices.
How to remove Shoppingdealslive.com?
- Remove Shoppingdealslive.com automatically
- Uninstall Shoppingdealslive.com from the Appications
- Remove rogue software from Profiles
- Delete malcious elements using Terminal
- Remove Shoppingdealslive.com From Browsers
Automatic removal of Shoppingdealslive.com
To make sure that the hijacker won’t appear again, you need to delete Shoppingdealslive.com completely. For this, you need to remove the application then check the drives for such leftovers as Shoppingdealslive.com files and registry entries.
Norton is a powerful tool that is able to keep your Mac clean. It would automatically search out and delete all elements related to Shoppingdealslive.com. It is not only the easiest way to eliminate Shoppingdealslive.com but also the safest and most assuring one.
Steps of Shoppingdealslive.com manual removal
Remove Shoppingdealslive.com from Applications
As it was stated before, more likely that the hijacker appeared on your system brought by other software. So, to get rid of Shoppingdealslive.com you need to call to memory what you have installed recently.
- Open a Finder window
- Click Applications line on the sidebar
- Try to find applications related to Shoppingdealslive.com (for example: some applications that you never installed yourself). Select them, right-click it and choose Move to Trash
Remove Shoppingdealslive.com from Profiles
- Launch System Preferences
- Select Profiles at the bottom of window.
- Choose AdminPrefs profile, click “-“ icon and enter password.
Remove Shoppingdealslive.com using Terminal
- Open Terminal
- Copy/paste:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES - Press Return
- Hold the Option/alt key, then right click on the Finder icon in the dock and click Relaunch
- Navigate to: /Users/yourmacname/Library/Application Support/
- Delete Folder: Agent
- Go back to Terminal and copy/paste:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO - Press Return
- Hold the Option/alt key, then right click on the Finder icon in the dock and click Relaunch
Remove Shoppingdealslive.com from browsers
Since most of the hijacker threats use a disguise of a browser add-on, you will need to check the list of extensions/add-ons in your browser.
How to remove Shoppingdealslive.com from Safari
- Start Safari
- Click on Safari menu button, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Shoppingdealslive.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Shoppingdealslive.com from Google Chrome
- Start Google Chrome
- Click on Tools, then go to the Extensions
- Delete Shoppingdealslive.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
How to remove Shoppingdealslive.com from Mozilla Firefox
- Start Mozilla Firefox
- Click on the right-upper corner button
- Click Add-ons, then go to Extensions
- Delete Shoppingdealslive.com or other extensions that look suspicious and you don’t remember installing them
If the above-mentioned methods didn’t help in eliminating the threat, then it’s better to rely on an automatic way of deleting Shoppingdealslive.com.
We also recommend to download and use Norton to scan the system after Shoppingdealslive.com removal to make sure that it is completely gone. The antimalware application will detect any vicious components left among the system that can recover Shoppingdealslive.com.
