If you sometimes notice that a great number of pop-ups are showing up on your screen on a regular basis while you surf the web, there’s a strong chance that you’ve been infected by an adware program like CheapMe. What is it? It’s an adware program that has only one goal: to display advertisements in order to make money for its designer by using your machine’s resources.
CheapMe is considered a potentially unwanted program and is therefore an adware program that infects your main browser and any other ones installed on your computer. Technically, it doesn’t show any characteristics of a virus; however, its ability to generate traffic and gather information on what you do online in order to display advertisements means that it’s a harmful software program. CheapMe can also redirect you to dubious websites through the advertisements it shows you.
When you download free software (game, movie or even PDF file downloading software), CheapMe takes advantage of the fact that the user isn’t paying attention in order to get installed secretively, just like other adware programs. Certain installation programs have a “customized installation” option, but others don’t even have one, so CheapMe can infiltrate your computer without you noticing.