Discover Treasure is a potentially unwanted program that is being “offered” as an optional tool to people downloading free software whose install program has been modified. We call Discover Treasure potentially unwanted because there’s always a way to stop it from being installed, all it takes is a little awareness on our part when we’re installing software coming from the net.
Discover Treasure is actually installed at the same time as some free software downloaded from certain download platforms specialized in freeware like download.com, soft32.com, softonic.com, etc… This websites offer install process where they combine the tool you’re looking for plus some optional programs (supposedly 100% virus free) that will pay them for being installed. This has been going on so much that we can easily say that installing freeware equals installing adware. You can stop this from happening by reading thoroughly every instruction given in each of the screens you pass while installing so you can reject any optional features you don’t want.
The minute Discover Treasure achieves a successful installation it starts spying and registering your online activity whilst also shows an annoying amount of ads. These ads can be seen as banners, pop-ups, fake results on Google or underlined words in blue/green among the text of every website you visit. It’s quite easy to spot Discover Treasure‘s publicity because it’s usually tagged as Ads by Discover Treasure or Discover Treasure Ads.
As told before, everything you do online can be seen and recorded by Discover Treasure, this malicious program saves different information about you like your OS system version, information about your browser, websites you visit, keywords from your searches, your IP address, your location, etc… among other data that could be used to identify you personally.
The previous screenshot shows Discover Treasure‘s official website where we can find their conditions of use; conditions that are implicitly approved by anyone who has this program installed.
How to remove Discover Treasure ?
Remove Discover Treasure with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.
- Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
- Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
- If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for Discover Treasure.
- When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
- When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.
Remove Discover Treasure with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a helpful tool made to remove undesired toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner needs no installation and can be ran in a instant to scan your system.
- Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
Download AdwCleaner - Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
- Click on the Scan button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
- Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.
Remove Discover Treasure with ZHPCleaner
ZHPCleaner is a program that searches for and deletes Adware, Toolbars, Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP), and browser Hijackers from your computer. By using ZHPCleaner you can easily remove many of these types of programs for a better user experience on your computer and while browsing the web.
- If Avast is installed on you computer you have to disable it during the process.
- You can download AdwCleaner utility from the below button :
Download ZHPCleaner - Select ZHPCleaner.exe with right mouse click and Run as Administrator.
- Accept the user agreement.
- Click on the Scanner button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Repair button.
- Reboot your computer.
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