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.
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