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Dealtimetoday.com

Posted: October 2, 2013

Dealtimetoday.com is a website promoting the Deal Time Today adware program, which modifies your browser to display advertisements that supposedly benefit your online experience by providing discounts, coupons, etc. Like other shopping-related adware programs, Dealtimetoday.com's product doesn't appear to organize its advertisements according to what's most financially beneficial for you as the user, and SpywareRemove.com malware researchers usually would suggest removing Dealtimetoday.com-related programs from your computer to optimize your browser's performance. Until you do so, exposure to misleading advertisements, poor browser stability and recurring Web page-injection attacks, amongst other issues, all may be expected.

When Every Day is 'Deal Time' as Far as Dealtimetoday.com is Concerned

Dealtimetoday.com is one of the numerous sites devoted to 'assisting' your online shopping efforts by displaying advertisements from its third-party affiliates. While Dealtimetoday.com does not distribute threatening content, malware researchers warn that Dealtimetoday.com's bargains can't be trusted to be sorted for an optimal shopping experience, and recommend taking any offers promoted by Dealtimetoday.com with a large grain of salt.

Dealtimetoday.com promotes these advertisements through its Deal Time Today add-on, a browser plugin that has not found to be limited to any one browser. Most major browsers, such as Chrome or Internet Explorer, should be considered vulnerable to Dealtimetoday.com's software, which may be installed by itself, but also may be installed through bundles that do so without your consent. Advertisement-friendly modifications that you may expect from Dealtimetoday.com's product include advertisement-injection attacks that modify the contents of a page to display additional advertisements, which also may have the side effect of preventing you from interacting with all of the affected Web page's normal content. You also may experience some other issues that are common to adware – such as having your homepage hijacked, your Web searches redirected or being forced to sit through pop-ups that launch automatically.

Closing Time for the Dealtime Domain

Dealtimetoday.com does not appear to have been extremely successful in its adware-based business plan – as it was confirmed that Dealtimetoday.com was down shortly before this article was written. However, Dealtimetoday.com's software still may be distributed through a variety of sites and networks, including torrenting networks or freeware sites that are especially common means of promoting low-level PC threats.

Deleting Dealtimetoday.com's browser add-on is most effectively done through anti-malware products with confirmed histories of dealing with adware and other browser-based pests. While most adware programs claim to be easy to uninstall, the majority of these, like Dealtimetoday.com's add-on, may continue to leave trace components of their software on your PC ever after normal uninstallation techniques have been applied. These may be used to continue to display advertisements or have other adverse effects on your browser until they're deleted by PC security/cleanup software that's capable of detecting them.

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