Name | Discover Treasure |
Type | Adware, PUP |
Short Description | Whenever the user is browsing the internet, many advertisements of potentially malicious sites are displayed. . |
Symptoms | The user may have installed the application without his approval. A lot of intrusive ads appear and the used browser may crash periodically. |
Distribution Method | Bundling, freeware installers. |
Detection tool | Download Malware Removal Tool, to See If Your System Has Been Affected By Discover Treasure |
“Discover Treasure” is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) that after being installed on your computer it will begin showing various advertisements in your browser, including full-page ads. The user may be redirected to sites with malicious content and the main aim of the malware is to generate revenue to its creators from these redirects.
Discover Treasure – How Did I Get It?
The “Discover Treasure” adware usually gets into your system through third-party installers. It can sneak into your computer without your knowledge, by concealing itself in freeware installations and bundled packages. In these packages, additional components for installation are not always disclosed properly, and people get tricked into installing potentially unwanted programs such as “Discover Treasure”. Sometimes that can be avoided by clicking on the “Advanced” or “Custom” option in an installation setup to see what, exactly, will be installed.
Another way of getting infected is just by browsing the adware’s official website “DiscoverTreasurenow.com” or by you knowingly installing it, thinking of it as an online shopping adviser.
Discover Treasure – More About It
“Discover Treasure” may be described as a browser helper and a shopping adviser, but it is actually an adware. The adware may crash your browser constantly, due to the fact that it may try to gather information details about you and your browsing activities in many different ways, including JavaScript and the Flash plugin. The adware may have files installed in the hidden AppData folder in Windows to store program settings and evade being detected.
The “Discover Treasure” adware does not disclose who its creator is or where the information collected by it goes to. If you read the “Privacy Policy” and “End-User License Agreement” provided on the malicious site, you will see that users agreeing to them might be subjected to their personal data to be collected – about their system and other devices, their location, identity on the web, their browsing activity and habits, what they type in searches and etc.
It is also stated there that the users will be shown various advertising content, based on the gathered personal data mentioned above, and that tracking details are to be used, supplemented, sold, and shared with third-parties for business purposes. Another problem is when the user does not read this information or is not able to do so, because it got injected into his system by simply visiting a malicious site or by installing a program, which is bundled with the adware, and not disclosing the “Discover Treasure” EULA properly, or that “Discover Treasure” will be installed whatsoever.
Once you have “Discover Treasure” installed on your machine, it will start showing many, personalized advertisements on pop-ups, banners, floating ad-boxes and even full-page promotions, with the help of all the personal data it gathers, mentioned in the above paragraph. It may also redirect you to sites with malicious content such as “Selectgo.net”. The purpose of these redirects is to create revenue for the creators of the malicious program.
Remove Discover Treasure Completely
To remove “Discover Treasure” manually from your system, make certain to follow the step-by-step removal instructions provided below. In case the manual removal does not get rid of this adware completely, you should search for and remove the leftover files with an advanced anti-malware program. Installing such a program will also make sure that your system is safe from other threats you may come across.
Step 1: Remove/Uninstall Discover Treasure in Windows
Here is a method in few easy steps to remove that program. No matter if you are using Windows 8, 7, Vista or XP, those steps will get the job done. Dragging the program or its folder to the recycle bin can be a very bad decision. If you do that, bits and pieces of the program get left behind, and that can lead to unstable work of your PC, mistakes with the file type associations and other unpleasant activities. The proper way to get a program off your computer is to Uninstall it. To do that:
Select the program that you want to remove, and press “Uninstall” (fig.3).
Follow the instructions above and you will successfully uninstall Discover Treasure.
Step 2: Remove Discover Treasure from your browser
Select the “Add-ons” icon from the menu
Select Discover Treasure and click “Remove”
After Discover Treasure is removed, restart Mozilla Firefox by closing it from the red “X” in the top right corner and start it again.
Select Discover Treasure to remove, and then click ‘Disable’. A pop-up window will appear to inform you that you are about to disable the selected toolbar, and some additional toolbars might be disabled as well. Leave all the boxes checked, and click ‘Disable’.
After Discover Treasure has been removed, restart Internet Explorer by closing it from the red ‘X’ in the top right corner and start it again.
Open the drop menu by clicking on the sprocket icon in the top right corner.
From the drop menu select ‘Preferences’
In the new window select ‘Extensions’
Click once on Discover Treasure
Click ‘Uninstall’
A pop-up window will appear asking for confirmation to uninstall Discover Treasure. Select ‘Uninstall’ again, and the Discover Treasure will be removed.
Step 3: Remove Discover Treasure automatically by downloading an advanced anti-malware program.
To clean your computer you should download an updated anti-malware program on a safe PC and then install it on the affected computer in offline mode. After that you should boot into safe mode and scan your computer to remove all Discover Treasure associated objects.
- Guide 1: How to Remove Discover Treasure from Windows.
- Guide 2: Get rid of Discover Treasure on Mac OS X.
- Guide 3: Remove Discover Treasure in Google Chrome.
- Guide 4: Erase Discover Treasure from Mozilla Firefox.
- Guide 5: Uninstall Discover Treasure from Microsoft Edge.
- Guide 6: Remove Discover Treasure from Safari.
- Guide 7: Eliminate Discover Treasure from Internet Explorer.
- Guide 8: Disable Discover Treasure Push Notifications in Your Browsers.
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How to Remove Discover Treasure from Windows.
Step 1: Boot Your PC In Safe Mode to isolate and remove Discover Treasure





Step 2: Uninstall Discover Treasure and related software from Windows
Here is a method in few easy steps that should be able to uninstall most programs. No matter if you are using Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista or XP, those steps will get the job done. Dragging the program or its folder to the recycle bin can be a very bad decision. If you do that, bits and pieces of the program are left behind, and that can lead to unstable work of your PC, errors with the file type associations and other unpleasant activities. The proper way to get a program off your computer is to Uninstall it. To do that:



Step 3: Clean any registries, created by Discover Treasure on your computer.
The usually targeted registries of Windows machines are the following:
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
You can access them by opening the Windows registry editor and deleting any values, created by Discover Treasure there. This can happen by following the steps underneath:



Before starting "Step 4", please boot back into Normal mode, in case you are currently in Safe Mode.
This will enable you to install and use SpyHunter 5 successfully.
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Get rid of Discover Treasure from Mac OS X.
Step 1: Uninstall Discover Treasure and remove related files and objects
1. Hit the ⇧+⌘+U keys to open Utilities. Another way is to click on “Go” and then click “Utilities”, like the image below shows:
- Go to Finder.
- In the search bar type the name of the app that you want to remove.
- Above the search bar change the two drop down menus to “System Files” and “Are Included” so that you can see all of the files associated with the application you want to remove. Bear in mind that some of the files may not be related to the app so be very careful which files you delete.
- If all of the files are related, hold the ⌘+A buttons to select them and then drive them to “Trash”.
In case you cannot remove Discover Treasure via Step 1 above:
In case you cannot find the virus files and objects in your Applications or other places we have shown above, you can manually look for them in the Libraries of your Mac. But before doing this, please read the disclaimer below:
You can repeat the same procedure with the following other Library directories:
→ ~/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons
Tip: ~ is there on purpose, because it leads to more LaunchAgents.
Step 2: Scan for and remove Discover Treasure files from your Mac
When you are facing problems on your Mac as a result of unwanted scripts and programs such as Discover Treasure, the recommended way of eliminating the threat is by using an anti-malware program. SpyHunter for Mac offers advanced security features along with other modules that will improve your Mac’s security and protect it in the future.
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Remove Discover Treasure from Google Chrome.
Step 1: Start Google Chrome and open the drop menu
Step 2: Move the cursor over "Tools" and then from the extended menu choose "Extensions"
Step 3: From the opened "Extensions" menu locate the unwanted extension and click on its "Remove" button.
Step 4: After the extension is removed, restart Google Chrome by closing it from the red "X" button at the top right corner and start it again.
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Erase Discover Treasure from Mozilla Firefox.
Step 1: Start Mozilla Firefox. Open the menu window
Step 2: Select the "Add-ons" icon from the menu.
Step 3: Select the unwanted extension and click "Remove"
Step 4: After the extension is removed, restart Mozilla Firefox by closing it from the red "X" button at the top right corner and start it again.
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Uninstall Discover Treasure from Microsoft Edge.
Step 1: Start Edge browser.
Step 2: Open the drop menu by clicking on the icon at the top right corner.
Step 3: From the drop menu select "Extensions".
Step 4: Choose the suspected malicious extension you want to remove and then click on the gear icon.
Step 5: Remove the malicious extension by scrolling down and then clicking on Uninstall.
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Remove Discover Treasure from Safari.
Step 1: Start the Safari app.
Step 2: After hovering your mouse cursor to the top of the screen, click on the Safari text to open its drop down menu.
Step 3: From the menu, click on "Preferences".
Step 4: After that, select the 'Extensions' Tab.
Step 5: Click once on the extension you want to remove.
Step 6: Click 'Uninstall'.
A pop-up window will appear asking for confirmation to uninstall the extension. Select 'Uninstall' again, and the Discover Treasure will be removed.
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Eliminate Discover Treasure from Internet Explorer.
Step 1: Start Internet Explorer.
Step 2: Click on the gear icon labeled 'Tools' to open the drop menu and select 'Manage Add-ons'
Step 3: In the 'Manage Add-ons' window.
Step 4: Select the extension you want to remove and then click 'Disable'. A pop-up window will appear to inform you that you are about to disable the selected extension, and some more add-ons might be disabled as well. Leave all the boxes checked, and click 'Disable'.
Step 5: After the unwanted extension has been removed, restart Internet Explorer by closing it from the red 'X' button located at the top right corner and start it again.
Remove Push Notifications caused by Discover Treasure from Your Browsers.
Turn Off Push Notifications from Google Chrome
To disable any Push Notices from Google Chrome browser, please follow the steps below:
Step 1: Go to Settings in Chrome.
Step 2: In Settings, select “Advanced Settings”:
Step 3: Click “Content Settings”:
Step 4: Open “Notifications”:
Step 5: Click the three dots and choose Block, Edit or Remove options:
Remove Push Notifications on Firefox
Step 1: Go to Firefox Options.
Step 2: Go to “Settings”, type “notifications” in the search bar and click "Settings":
Step 3: Click “Remove” on any site you wish notifications gone and click “Save Changes”
Stop Push Notifications on Opera
Step 1: In Opera, press ALT+P to go to Settings
Step 2: In Setting search, type “Content” to go to Content Settings.
Step 3: Open Notifications:
Step 4: Do the same as you did with Google Chrome (explained below):
Eliminate Push Notifications on Safari
Step 1: Open Safari Preferences.
Step 2: Choose the domain from where you like push pop-ups gone and change to "Deny" from "Allow".