Should I remove Barnyard Deals?

What percent of users and experts removed it?

81% remove it19% keep it

Overall Sentiment

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How common is it?

Reach <0.001%

Versions

Version	Distribution
1.0	100.00%

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What is Barnyard Deals?

Barnyard Deals is an adware program that integrates into the user's web browsers (IE, Chrome, Firefox) and will perform a number of functions mostly designed to generate advertising supported or affiliate revenue. In order to do so the program will display a number of different ad formats by injecting the ads directly in the user's browser based on either the activity of the user's past and present behavior or based on the context of the web page. Ads are displayed as banners, text-links, search related adverts or in many cases malvertising in order to get a user to download and install additional software, mostly bundled adware. This adware will also track and report back the user's surfing behavior including web pages and domains visited as well as the advertisements displayed and clicked.

Additionally this program may modify/hijack the web browser's homepage and search provider as well as change a number of the security settings of the browser. These changes will allow it to perform additional ad-supported functions in the browser. Typically it comes bundled with free applications from the Internet through a bundles offer for free software including video utilities or for updates.

Overview

The main program executable is SoftwareDetector.exe. Typically most users end up uninstalling this just after a few days. The software installer includes 5 files and is usually about 1.16 MB (1,211,878 bytes).

Possible malware installed by this program
Typically distributed through a pay-per-install bundle
Displays unwanted advertisements
Hijacks the browser's default search provider
The experts agree, you should remove it!

Warning, multiple anti-virus scanners have detected possible malware in Barnyard Deals.

SoftwareDetector.exe (4af1a3b1f2f284106a9a500e2ed6db37) has been flagged by the following 21 scanners:
Anti-Virus software	Version	Detection
Lavasoft Ad-Aware	912	Application.Generic.652787
Agnitum Outpost	7.1.1	PUA.SmartApps
Antiy-AVL	1.0.0.1	Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric
avast!	2014.9-140806	Win32:Adware-gen [Adw]
AVG	2015.0.3390	Generic5
Baidu-International	4.0.3.1486	Adware.Win32.SmartApps.bA
Bitdefender	1.0.20.1090	Application.Generic.652787
Comodo Security	18804	ApplicUnwnt
Dr.Web	9.0.0.0218	Trojan.Crossrider.23617
ESET-NOD32	8.10062	a variant of Win32/AdWare.SmartApps.A
Fortinet FortiGate	8/6/2014	Riskware/SmartApps
F-Secure	11.2014-06-08_4	Application.Generic.652787
G Data	14.8.24	Application.Generic.652787
K7 AntiVirus	13.180.12643	Adware
K7GW	13.180.12650	Trojan ( 050000001 )
McAfee	5600.7046	Artemis!4AF1A3B1F2F2
McAfee-GW-Edition	7.7046	Artemis!4AF1A3B1F2F2
MicroWorld-eScan	15.0.0.654	Application.Generic.652787
NANO AntiVirus	0.28.0.60698	Trojan.Win32.Crossrider.dbiqdo
TrendMicro-HouseCall	7.2.218	Suspicious_GEN.F47V0617
VIPRE Antivirus	31082	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT

View all 21 all detections

Barnyard Deals has been found to be bundled with 3rd party software. If you have not purposefully installed this, you should be safe uninstalling it.

Program details

Installation folder: C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Barnyard Deals

Uninstaller: C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Barnyard Deals\uninstall.exe

Estimated size: 1.16 MB

Files installed by Barnyard Deals

Program executable:	SoftwareDetector.exe (Malware detected)
Path:	C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Barnyard Deals\SoftwareDetector.exe
MD5:	4af1a3b1f2f284106a9a500e2ed6db37

Additional files:

gpedit.exe
(Malware detected) SoftwareDetector.exe
storageedit.exe
uninstall.exe
sqlite3.exe

How do I remove Barnyard Deals?

You can uninstall Barnyard Deals from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.

On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:

Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.

When you find the program Barnyard Deals, click it, and then do one of the following:

Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).

Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Barnyard Deals.
If for some reason uninstallation fails, please install Microsoft's uninstall fixer utility which will help fix problems with programs that can't be uninstalled at support.microsoft.com.