Like other adware, FlexibleShopper belongs to difficult programs that display a bunch of ads. This type of software is designed to generate traffic and provide more visibility to online sales sites where it’s affiliated.
When FlexibleShopper is installed on your computer, it multiplies the ads by showing you fake discounts and promo codes during your browsing. Added as an extension, FlexibleShopper can integrate your browser whether you use Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. Except from displaying ads, it can also:
- Collect information about your browsing history in order to personalize the offered ads.
- Integrate and weaken your system to provide access to other types of malicious programs.
- Slow down the program running on your computer, which will firstly affect your web browsing.
Integrated in free software, FlexibleShopper penetrates your system during the software installation without noticing. In fact, when you accept the conditions of use without paying attention to the programs or extensions that are coupled with, you allow to these parasites to be installed. So, you have to be careful when you install free and non-certified software.
How to remove FlexibleShopper ?
Remove FlexibleShopper from your browser
- Open Chrome and go to the 3 stripes icon
in top right corner. - Select Settings and on the left side Extensions.
- Remove FlexibleShopper by clicking the trash can
icon.
- Restart Google Chrome.
- Open Firefox
- Click on the Big Orange Firefox button in top left corner, then select Add-ons
- Remove FlexibleShopper by clicking the Remove button.
- Restart Mozilla Firefox
- Open Internet Explorer
- Click on the Gear icon
, then click on Manage Addons - Go to the tabToolbars and Extensions
- Select and disable FlexibleShopper if you can’t find it or if you can't remove it, go to the next step.
- Restart Internet Explorer
Remove FlexibleShopper with AdwCleaner
AdwCleaner is a helpful tool developed to delete unwanted toolbars, browser hijackers, redirects and potentially unwanted programs (PUPs) in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome or Opera. AdwCleaner needs no set up and can be ran in a instant to examine your computer.
- Please download AdwCleaner by Xplode and save to your Desktop :
Download AdwCleaner - Double-click on AdwCleaner.exe to run the tool (Windows Vista/7/8 users : right-click and select Run As Administrator).
- Click on the Scan button.
- After the scan has finished, click on the Clean button..
- Press OK again to allow AdwCleaner to restart the computer and complete the removal process.
Remove FlexibleShopper with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is a light-weight anti-malware program that is excellent at removing the latest detections.
- Download Malwarebytes Anti-Malware to your desktop.
Premium Version Free Version (without Real-time protection) - Install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware using the installation wizard.
- Once installed, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will automatically start and you will see a message stating that you should update the program, and that a scan has never been run on your system. To start a system scan you can click on the Fix Now button.
- If an update is found, you will be prompted to download and install the latest version.
- Malwarebytes Anti-Malware will now start scanning your computer for FlexibleShopper.
- When the scan is complete, make sure that everything is set to Quarantine, and click Apply Actions.
- When removing the files, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware may require a reboot in order to remove some of them. If it displays a message stating that it needs to reboot your computer, please allow it to do so.
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