What is Discover Treasure

Discover Treasure by Yontoo Technology Inc is adware browser extension for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. According to its terms of use Discover Treasure may show you coupons, shopping comparison, ads, pop-ups. Ads may appear in any part of browser windows. Advertisements by Discover Treasure have signatures: “Related Search by Discover Treasure”, “powered by Discover Treasure”, “brought by Discover Treasure”. Banners are not related to the websites user visits, but based on users browsing habits, search history. Application may also share this private data with advertising networks. We strongly recommend to remove Discover Treasure adware from your computer a.s.a.p.

Discover Treasure ads

How Discover Treasure infected your PC

Discover Treasure infected your PC when you installed some program recently. Usually it is bundled with free programs. Discover Treasure installs like a regular program, but in a stealth mode. Users do not see installation windows and can’t get acquainted with terms of use and privacy policy of this application. Discover Treasure is not a virus, but potentially unwanted application. Antiviruses will not detect it. Instead you can use SpyHunter 5 or MalwareBytes AntiMalware to remove Discover Treasure. Full versions of this programs will also provide active protection from threats similar to Discover Treasure.

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Download Removal Tool

To remove Discover Treasure completely we recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 from EnigmaSoft Limited. It detects and removes all files, folders and registry keys of Discover Treasure and several millions of other adware, hijackers, toolbars.

Remove Discover Treasure manually for free

Here is manual step-by-step tutorial for full Discover Treasure removal from your computer. This works 99% and was checked with the latest versions of Discover Treasure installer on operating systems with latest updates and browser versions.

Remove Discover Treasure from Control Panel

To start removing Discover Treasure you should remove it using Control Panel. It should uninstall correctly, however, we recommend you to use IObit Uninstaller to clean leftover items after uninstalling. Here are instructions for Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Remove Discover Treasure from Windows XP:

  1. Click on Start button.
  2. Choose Control Panel.
  3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
  4. Find Discover Treasure.
  5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Discover Treasure from Windows 7:

  1. Click Start button.
  2. Then go to Control Panel.
  3. Click Uninstall a Program.
  4. Find Discover Treasure and click Uninstall.

Remove Discover Treasure from Windows 8:

  1. Hover mouse pointer to the bottom-right corner to see Menu.
  2. Click Search.
  3. After that click Apps.
  4. Then Control Panel.
  5. Click Uninstall a Program under Programs.
  6. Find Discover Treasure, click Uninstall.

Remove Discover Treasure from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Discover Treasure from Windows 10

Way one
  1. Click on the Start button.
  2. In opened menu choose Settings.
  3. Click on the System tile.
  4. Click Apps & features and locate Discover Treasure in the list.
  5. Click on it and then click Uninstall button near it.
Way two (classic)
  1. Right-click on the Start button.
  2. In opened menu choose Programs and Features.
  3. Locate Discover Treasure in the list.
  4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Cannot uninstall Discover Treasure

In some cases Discover Treasure won’t uninstall and gives you message that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Discover Treasure. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing Discover Treasure folder and files. This happens, because some file or service does not allow you to do it. In this case I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall Discover Treasure in Safe Mode. To boot in Safe Mode do the following:

  1. Reboot your computer.
  2. While it starts booting press F8 button.
  3. This will open Advanced Boot Options menu.
  4. Choose Safe Mode and wait until Windows loads.
  5. Go to Control Panel > Uninstall a program and remove Discover Treasure

>> See detailed instructions and video tutorial on how to boot in Safe Mode

Remove Discover Treasure add-on from your browsers

Removing Discover Treasure from Control Panel often does not bring desired effect. It is browser extension and it may still be active in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove Discover Treasure extension from your browsers manually.

Google Chrome:

  1. Start Google Chrome browser
  2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions/.
  3. Find Discover Treasure extension.
  4. Click the trash can icon to remove it.

Mozilla Firefox:

  1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
  2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
  3. Choose Discover Treasure extension.
  4. Click Disable or Remove button.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

Note: There is no feature to remove browser extensions from browser in latest version of Internet Explorer. To remove Discover Treasure from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable Discover Treasure, please, do the following:

  1. Open Internet Explorer.
  2. Click on gear/asterisk icon in the top-right corner.
  3. In opened menu Manage Add-ons.
  4. Select Toolbars and Extensions.
  5. Click Disable Discover Treasure.

Opera Browser:

Generally, Discover Treasure does not install in Opera browser however you can always double check. Do the following:

  1. Start Opera browser.
  2. Go to Tools > Extensions > Manage Extensions.
  3. Find Discover Treasure or Discover Treasure 2.0 extension.
  4. Click Uninstall button.

Remove following files and folders

Discover Treasure files:


52dfc801-83d0-4562-93bf-f22d344c737e.dll
firefox@www.discovertreasurenow.com.xpi
Uninstaller.exe

Discover Treasure folders:


C:\Program Files (x86)\Discover Treasure
C:\Program Files\Discover Treasure

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