ShoppingHelp is a browser extension supposed to be really useful to users by finding and showing special offers and discounts. This so called offers appear whenever the user is browsing an e-commerce website such as e-Bay or Amazon among others. Truth is ShoppingHelp is nothing but an adware, it complies with every characteristic of it, first of all it’s financed by publicity and coincidentally all ads match your browsing habits.
If you have been victim of an adware in the past, you already know how difficult it is to get rid of them manually. Even though you find ShoppingHelp in our Virus section, we have to recognize that is not a dangerous infection on its own. however you can end up being exposed to further danger through it. Actually ShoppingHelp’s developers have no control over the content of the ads coming from their clients, these ads are created by advertising companies who couldn’t care less about the users’ safety.
ShoppingHelp can show different kinds of ads like pop-ups and banners. All labeled or tagged as Powered by ShoppingHelp or ShoppingHelp Ads.
As many other adware do, ShoppingHelp can spy on you as well as show you ads. From the very first moment it’s installed it will spy your browsing activity so the ads shown are a match to your personal preferences. ShoppingHelp saves data about your browsing habits, such as searches you make, clicks you do, time you spend on every website, etc… This unwanted program can also have access to your browsing history and can change several of your browser’s parameters. All of these need resources, thus making your system go slower than usual.
You’ll find below detailed instructions to remove ShoppingHelp using nothing but free tools that are guaranteed to help you remove not only this but any other infection present in your computer.
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