Buzzsearch Deals

Posted by Lisa Blanc on November 15, 2013

What is Buzzsearch Deals?

Buzzsearch Deals is a potentially unwanted program that is classified as adware. This application should be available for download at its official website, but that is not the case at the time of writing. Therefore, Buzzsearch Deals is immediately suspicious. According to security experts, this adware application displays coupon deals and pop-up advertisements. It is definitely annoying and in the long run it might result in malware infection. Hence, it is for the best to remove Buzzsearch Deals from your computer right now. You should also terminate other potentially unwanted apps that came arrived together with Buzzsearch Deals.

Where does Buzzsearch Deals come from?

Although the official Buzzsearch Deals website can be accessed at mybuzzsearch.com, the server does not work at the moment, so it is impossible to download Buzzsearch Deals directly. Nevertheless, the application also quite often travels bundled with other freeware and adware, so if you often download unfamiliar software from third party websites, you can be sure that sooner or later Buzzsearch Deals will be installed on your computer as well.

The most disturbing fact about this application is that it is often bundled with Aartemis.com browser hijacker or Webcake freeware. Therefore, even though this adware application is not a malicious infection, the fact that it is related to browser hijackers should not be overlooked.

What does Buzzsearch Deals do?

During the installation you are told that:

BuzzSearch enables features which complement and enhance internet searches to provide a better web experience. BuzzSearch software adds website ratings, reviews, exclusive offers, related search results, multi-site searching, comparison shopping, and coupons. Additional features may be auto-enabled after installing.

In other words, Buzzsearch Deals interferes with your web browsing process in order to collect information on what websites you frequent. That is done via tracking cookies, and later on, when the data collected is processed, Buzzsearch Deals generates a string of commercial pop-ups that should be customized to your liking.

Unfortunately, Buzzsearch Deals dabs into a third party advertising network in order to provide you with the aforementioned services, so it cannot be held responsible for the third party content. In case a malevolent third party decides to embed its content into the pop-ups, you might get exposed to a malware distribution network.

How to remove Buzzsearch Deals?

In order to protect yourself from potential harm, you need to remove Buzzsearch Deals and all the other related applications from your computer right now. It is possible terminate the application via Control Panel, but keep in mind that sometimes manual removal cannot take care of all the infection files and tracking cookies it leaves behind.

Therefore, in order to determine whether you still have any potentially unwanted programs on board, you need to scan your PC with SpyHunter free scanner. Invest in a reliable antimalware application if necessary, and remove all the potential threats from your system automatically before it is too late to do anything about it.