Higher Aurum

Posted by Lisa Blanc on February 19, 2014

What is Higher Aurum?

Higher Aurum is a browser add-on which displays coupons and various advertisements to enhance your browsing experience. If you have this application in the PC, you must have noticed that it can display web banners, pop-ups, and interstitial advertisements, some of which have nothing in common with your browsing interests. Higher Aurum is an ad-supported program, which means that there are some sponsors who use the service of Higher Aurum to drive more traffic to their websites. Since any websites can be advertised by Higher Aurum, you should keep in mind that you interact with the pop-ups and other ads at your own risk.

In order to get rid of the Higher Aurum ads, you should remove the unwanted application from the PC, and the sooner you do it, the better. Why? Keep on reading to find out why you should remove Higher Aurum as soon as you can.

How does Higher Aurum work?

Higher Aurum works on a variety of websites. You may find coupons and price comparison information on shopping websites, whereas various advertisements and recommendations can be displayed on any website. You may be invited to update your computer programs, download some player, sign up to play online games, etc. It is very important to stay away from questionable websites in order to prevent data loss. If you do not know the website or find its privacy policy suspicious, do not trust the website. Some of the websites promoted by Higher Aurum may be aimed at making you reveal your phone number, e-mail address and other personally identifiable information, which could be used for various purposes.

In order to determine what your browsing patterns are, some browser cookies and/or other tracking techniques may be used by Higher Aurum. Their function is to collect information about your browsing behavior so that some conclusions can be drawn. The information that may be collected by Higher Aurum includes your search terms, IP address, clicks, impressions, the addresses of the websites that you visit, the characteristics of the operating system and the like. The data gathered may be used to provide you with specific advertisements at a particular moment in order to increase the chance that you will click on the advertisement. If you are dissatisfied with how Higher Aurum works, remove the application and make sure that the system is protected against similar and more dangerous programs.

How to remove Higher Aurum?

In order to save your time, you can rely on a powerful anti-spyware tool. Our team recommends using SpyHunter because this application can easily remove Higher Aurum from the PC and also safeguard the system against multiple threats.

It is possible to remove the unwanted adware program manually, which you can do with the help of the instructions provided below. However, after uninstalling the program, you should scan the computer to find out what unnecessary or harmful files have remained within the system.