Sale Clipper is the name of a potentially unwanted program offered as “optional” to users installing free software whose setup program has been modified. Sale Clipper is classified as potentially unwanted because there’s usually a way to stop it from being installed, just by paying attention to all install steps while setting up a new program in our computers, we can prevent its installation. Sale Clipper as many other advertising software, is installed through fake video players found in streaming websites or in fake updates for Java and Flash; it’s also possible to found it in the most popular download platforms, like softonic.com, download.com, sourceforge.com, soft32.com, etc. These platforms get a commission for every Sale Clipper successful installation.
Showing non-stopping ads and spying on our browsing habits are the two principal goals of Sale Clipper. It was specially designed to fulfill them.
Ads shown by Sale Clipper can be seen literally everywhere. They can appear directly onto the content of every visited website in the form of banners, pop-ups, green/blue links among the text of the page, or as new tabs and windows that open up whenever we click on something, although is also possible that they open on their own accord. Sale Clipper’s ads are easy to spot, as they are usually tagged as Sale Clipper Ads or Ads by Sale Clipper.