Get Rid of DealCoaster Pop-up Virus Step by Step

If your browser is infected by DealCoaster, you can keep reading this post and follow the steps to get rid of DealCoaster completely from your browser and stop redirect issue and popups.

Description of DealCoaster

DealCoaster is identified as a browser hijacker which can affect many browsers such as IE, Chrome and Firefox. According to the report, this browser hijacker has attacked thousands of PC users all over the world. Generally, DealCoaster redirect virus can enter PC secretly when users surf the Internet, especially when they come to shopping sites.
If DealCoaster successfully gets inside your system, it will cause a lot of issues to make you mad. As an advertising platform, DealCoaster may show you a lot of unwanted ads and commercial links which contain online sales or coupon codes. If you click on them, you may suffer financial loss or identity theft. Besides, DealCoaster redirect virus can change your homepage and system setting such as DNS setting, and default search engine. Moreover, your browsing histories and personal information may be stolen by this browser hijacker for the remote hackers. Thus, you must remove it from your PC right now.

Screenshot of DealCoaster

Annoyances that are caused by DealCoaster:

1.DealCoaster virus will slow down your PC speed, so you cannot use your PC smoothly.
2.Lots of ads keep popping up when you surf the Internet.
3.DealCoaster virus will disable your antivirus program and help other viruses attack your PC
4.Redirect problem will happen all the time.

Steps to remove DealCoaster virus:

1.Stop all vicious processes of DealCoaster from Task Manager
To do this, you can hit Ctrl+Shift+Esc at the same time to open the Task Manager. But you should know that the virus’s name may vary from one to other, so you should be careful.

2.Display all hidden files so as to remove DealCoaster's files
To show all hidden files from PC, please follow these steps:
①Click Start Menu and click Control Panel

②Click Appearance and Personalization and click Folder Options

③Go to View tab, tick Show hidden files and folders and deselect Hide protected operating system files (Recommended)

④Click OK
3.Remove all malicious files and keys from Registry Editor
To do this, you can click on Start Menu and click Run. When a dialogue pops up, you should type "regedit" in the box and click OK.

Then you will see the following Screenshot:

Now, please remove the following keys from the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run\
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Temp
Note: you should know that any mistake changes happen in the registry will cause other serious system problems. So before you make some changes, you should back up your registry first!

How to Open & Back up the Registry