What is Deal Fairy?
Deal Fairy (also known as DEALfairy) is an adware-type program, which is really similar to Coupon Caddy, Coupon Drop Down or Deal Ply adwares. The main reason why these programs have been added to ‘potentially unwanted program’ category is that they, right after being installed on the system, start showing different kinds of advertisements and underlined words. These ads show up on PC’s desktop as soon as user starts browsing on the web. Please, be really careful with Deal Fairy ads because that’s how you may be tricked into visiting questionable and suspicious websites. Besides, you should also know that this program may infiltrate your PC system without your approval. That’s because there are lots of freewares and sharewares that have been involved to Deal Fairy adware distribution. In order to avoid this, you need to start monitoring installation of the freeware. The easiest way to do that is to select Custom or Advanced installation of the freeware. In addition, you should uncheck all suspicious check marks that claim that you want to installDeal Fairy or other ‘useful’ browser add-on on your computer.
If Deal Fairy has already infiltrated your computer without your approval, be prepared that it will hijack all of your Internet browsers, including IE, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. In addition, it modifies needed PC’s settings and starts interrupting the user with its own notifications when you enter an online shopping website, such as Amazon, Wallmart, eBay and similar. All these alerts are typically filled with offers, deals and coupons that should help you to save some dollars. However, they may also force you to install other potentially unwanted application and make you visit unknown websites. Please, be very careful when dealing with Deal Fairy if you haven’t installed it by yourself. In this case, you should remove this application with a help of FortectIntego (compatible with Windows OS) or FortectIntego (compatible with Windows and Mac OS X).

HOW can Deal Fairy hijack MY COMPUTER?
Deal Fairy can be easily downloaded from its official website as a tool, which can help you to save some time and money while shopping online. However, it can also get inside the system in a bundle with freeware and shareware without your awareness. This method becomes more and more popular among such programs but it also encourages security experts to include them to the list of ‘adware’ applications. As soon as it gets inside, Deal Fairy virus leaves its add-on on all Internet browsers so that it could track user’s browsing habits. In addition, it begins showing its own pop-up ads and notifications when shopping online. It’s OK if you find this program useful because it’s not a virus. However, you should get rid of it if it got on your computer without any permission asked.
HOW TO REMOVE Deal Fairy adware?
In order to get rid of Deal Fairy, you should firstly uninstall it from your computer manually. Besides, look for these programs and, if detected, unilstall them as well: Online HD TV Toolbar: Online HD TV, PutLockerDownload, TornTV, Yontoo, 1ClickDown, 1ClickDownloader, FB Photo Zoom, GoPhoto.it, HDvid Codec, IB Updater, Incredibar Toolbar, OneClickDownload, OneClickDownloader. For that, use these steps:
Uninstall from Windows
Uninstall from Windows 10/8:
- Type Control Panel into the Windows search box and open the result.
- Under Programs, select Uninstall a program.

Uninstall from Windows 7/XP:
- Click on Windows Start > Control Panel (Windows XP users should click on Add/Remove Programs).
- In Control Panel, select Programs > Uninstall a program.

Remove the unwanted program:
- In the Programs and Features window, look for any recently installed suspicious entries, select them, and click Uninstall.
- If User Account Control appears, click Yes to confirm, then complete the removal.

Delete from macOS
Remove the unwanted application:
- From the menu bar, select Go > Applications.
- In the Applications folder, look for any suspicious entries, then drag them to Trash (or right-click and pick Move to Trash).

Delete leftover files and folders:
- Select Go > Go to Folder.
- Enter /Library/Application Support and remove any suspicious folders related to the unwanted program.
- Repeat the same check in the /Library/LaunchAgents and /Library/LaunchDaemons folders, deleting any suspicious entries.

- Finally, empty the Trash to permanently remove the leftovers.
Remove from Microsoft Edge
Delete unwanted extensions from MS Edge:
- Select Menu (three horizontal dots at the top-right of the browser window) and pick Extensions.
- From the list, pick the extension and click on the Gear icon.
- Click Remove.

Clear cookies and other browser data:
- Click on the Menu (three horizontal dots at the top-right of the browser window) and select Settings > Privacy, search, and services..
- Under Clear browsing data, pick Choose what to clear.
- Select Cookies and other site data and Cached images and files. (apart from passwords, although you might want to include Media licenses as well, if applicable) and click on Clear.

Restore new tab and homepage settings:
- Click the menu icon and choose Settings.
- Then find On startup section.
- Click Remove next to any suspicious startup page.
Reset MS Edge if the above steps did not work:
- Press on Ctrl + Shift + Esc to open Task Manager.
- Click on More details arrow at the bottom of the window.
- Select Details tab.
- Now scroll down and locate every entry with Microsoft Edge name in it. Right-click on each of them and select End Task to stop MS Edge from running.

Instructions for Chromium-based Edge
Delete extensions from MS Edge (Chromium):
- Open Edge and click select Settings > Extensions.
- Delete unwanted extensions by clicking Remove.

Clear cache and site data:
- Click on Menu and go to Settings.
- Select Privacy, search and services.
- Under Clear browsing data, pick Choose what to clear.
- Under Time range, pick All time.
- Select Clear now.

Reset Chromium-based MS Edge:
- Click on Menu and select Settings.
- On the left side, pick Reset settings.
- Select Restore settings to their default values.
- Confirm with Reset.
- This will disable extensions and reset startup pages but will not delete bookmarks, saved passwords, or browsing history.

Remove from Mozilla Firefox (FF)
Remove dangerous extensions:
- Open Mozilla Firefox browser and click on the Menu (three horizontal lines at the top-right of the window).
- Select Add-ons.
- In here, select the unwanted extension and click Remove.

Reset the homepage:
- Click three horizontal lines at the top right corner to open the menu.
- Choose Settings.
- Under Home, set your preferred homepage and new tab settings.
Clear cookies and site data:
- Click Menu and pick Settings.
- Go to Privacy & Security section.
- Scroll down to locate Cookies and Site Data.
- Click on Clear Data...
- Select Cookies and Site Data and Temporary cached files and pages, then click Clear.

Reset Mozilla Firefox
If clearing the browser as explained above did not help, reset Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Mozilla Firefox browser and click the Menu.
- Go to Help and then choose Troubleshooting Information.

- Under Give Firefox a tune up section, click on Refresh Firefox...
- Once the pop-up shows up, confirm the action by pressing on Refresh Firefox.

Remove from Google Chrome
Delete malicious extensions from Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome, click on the Menu (three vertical dots at the top-right corner) and select More tools > Extensions.
- In the newly opened window, you will see all the installed extensions. Uninstall all suspicious extensions related to the unwanted program by clicking Remove.

Clear cache and web data from Chrome:
- Click on Menu and pick Settings.
- Under Privacy and security, select Clear browsing data.
- Select Browsing history, Cookies and other site data, as well as Cached images and files.
- Click Clear data.

Change your homepage:
- Click menu and choose Settings.
- Look for a suspicious site in the On startup section.
- Click on Open a specific or set of pages and click on three dots to find the Remove option.
Reset Google Chrome:
If the previous methods did not help you, reset Google Chrome to eliminate all the unwanted components:
- Click on Menu and select Settings.
- In the Settings, scroll down and click Advanced.
- Scroll down and locate Reset and clean up section.
- Now click Restore settings to their original defaults.
- Confirm with Reset settings.

Delete from Safari
Remove dangerous extensions:
- Open Safari, click Safari in the menu at the top-left of the screen, and select Preferences.
- Go to the Extensions tab, look for any suspicious entries, and click Uninstall to remove them.

Clear history and website data:
- Click Safari in the menu and pick Clear History.
- Set Clear to all history and confirm with Clear History.

Reset Safari:
- Click Safari in the menu and select Preferences > Advanced.
- Enable Show Develop menu in menu bar.
- From the menu bar, click Develop and select Empty Caches.

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