How to remove Discovery App

What is Discovery App

Developed and published by SuperWeb LLC, Discovery App is a potentially unwanted extension that bears the capabilities of adware. This can be clearly seen in the promotion of various ads during the browsing session. Since Discovery App has access to your browser settings, it can analyze your location, IP-address, and display the content based on the collected data. As you search through the web, you may start seeing a number of news ads and product offers targeting your country or even a city. The extension claims such functionality is useful for people who want to compare prices and save money on online shopping. Whilst this sounds prolific indeed, Discovery App is not trusted in how it stores and uses your data. Not excluded that this app sells it to cybercriminals or other figures hunting for personal data. This is why it highly-recommended to remove Discovery App as it is potentially unwanted and might harm your privacy state. Both removal instructions and protectionary tips can be found in the article below.

How Discovery App infected your computer

Discovery App usually ends up working on users’ PCs without consent. It does so by exploiting third-party repacks and user obliviousness. To elaborate, there are lots of people relying on freeware downloads from multiple resources. For cybercriminals, it is a huge opportunity to cover a wide range of potential victims. Knowing this, they bundle additional offers along with the advertised software. Because most users tend to skip “Terms of Use” and other sections (e.g. “Advanced/Custom”), they risk catching an unwanted infection like today’s mentioned. In order to prevent this, you should be more careful whilst using free software. Even legitimate programs have promotional offers included by other companies, so keep an eye on that as well.

1. Download Discovery App Removal Tool
2. Remove/Uninstall Discovery App from Control Panel and Applications
3. Remove Discovery App extensions from browsers
4. Reset browser search and homepage settings
5. Block Discovery App search redirects
6. How to protect from threats like Discovery App

Remove Discovery App manually for free

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

Remove Discovery App from Control Panel or Applications

To start removing Discovery App you should uninstall it using Control Panel. It can be present by different names – “Discovery App”. 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, Windows 8, Windows 10, and Mac.

Remove Discovery App from Mac:

1. In the Finder sidebar, click Applications.
2. Discovery App might have an Uninstaller.
3. Otherwise, drag Discovery App from the Applications folder to the Trash (located at the end of the Dock).
4. Then choose Finder > Empty Trash.

Remove Discovery App from Windows XP:

1. Click on Start button.
2. Choose Control Panel.
3. Click Add or Remove Programs.
4. Find Discovery App or other recently installed suspicious program.
5. Click Uninstall.

Remove Discovery App from Windows 7:

1. Click Start button.
2. Then go to Control Panel.
3. Click Uninstall a Program.
4. Find Discovery App or other recently installed suspicious program and click Uninstall.

Remove Discovery App 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 Discovery App or other recently installed suspicious program, click Uninstall.

Remove Discovery App from Windows 10:

There are 2 ways to uninstall Discovery App 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 Discovery App or other recently installed suspicious program 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 Discovery App or other recently installed suspicious program in the list.
4. Click on it and then click Uninstall button above.

Cannot uninstall Discovery App

In some cases, Discovery App won’t uninstall and gives you a message that “You do not have sufficient access to uninstall Discovery App. Please, contact your system administrator” when you try to remove it from Control Panel or “Access denied” error when removing the Discovery App folder and files. This happens because the process or service does not allow you to do it. In this case, I will recommend you to use SpyHunter 5 or Malwarebytes or uninstall Discovery App 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 Discovery App or other recently installed suspicious program

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

and for Mac:

If you can’t uninstall Discovery App using instructions above, or it keeps coming back, you can use free AppCleaner for Mac to remove all residual data and libraries of Discovery App. Follow instructions below:

1. Download free AppCleaner.
2. Drag Discovery App from Applications folder to AppCleaner window.
3. Choose files and folders you want to remove along with Discovery App.
4. Click Delete button.

Remove malicious add-ons from your browsers

Uninstalling Discovery App from Control Panel often does not bring the desired effect. It sometimes has browser extension and it may still be active in Safari, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox. Here are instructions on how to remove Discovery App related extension from your browsers manually.

Safari:

1. Start Safari on your Mac, click Safari to open drop-down menu and choose Preferences
2. Click Extensions tab.
3. Find Discovery App extension.
4. Click Uninstall button to remove it.

Google Chrome:

1. Start Google Chrome browser
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) chrome://extensions.
3. Find Discovery App extension.
4. Click the trash can icon to remove them.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

Mozilla Firefox:

1. Start Mozilla Firefox browser.
2. In address box type (or copy-paste) about:addons.
3. Choose Discovery App extension.
4. Click Disable or Remove button.
5. Remove all suspicious extensions from the list.

Internet Explorer (9, 10, 11):

Note: There is no feature to remove browser extensions from browser in latest version of Internet Explorer. To remove Discovery App from Internet Explorer, please, perform instructions for uninstalling program from Control Panel. To disable Discovery App, 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 or Discovery App extension.
6. Also disable other suspicious extensions from the list.

Opera Browser:

Generally, Discovery App 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 Discovery App extension.
4. Click Uninstall button.
5. Also remove other suspicious extensions from the list.

How to block ads and pop-ups from Discovery App

Discovery App push notifications, in most cases, are caused by a program installed on your PC or add-on installed in browsers. However, sometimes it can appear on a clean computer when visiting a malicious website, using an advertising script. Also, apps that generate “Discovery App” ads and banners are themselves installed from pop-ups. To protect your PC and browsers from phishing websites, pop-up ads, banners, malicious scripts it is recommended to use AdGuard. Download free trial here:

Download AdGuard for Windows

Download AdGuard for Mac

Final tips

Be careful surfing the internet and downloading software, as programs, like Discovery App, may become a real headache as they are hard to remove and break your privacy. To keep safe from such threats we recommend you always use antivirus and one of the anti-malware programs available on the market. One of the best anti-spyware and anti-malware programs is SpyHunter 5. It can protect your PC from threats, like Discovery App.