Kasimos

Posted by Max Lehmann on February 17, 2014

What is Kasimos?

Kasimos is an adware program that displays commercial advertisements when you browse the web. It cannot be considered a direct computer security threat, because for the most part users allow the adware to enter their computers themselves. However, in case you are a security-minded user, you should remove Kasimos from your system, because adware programs are vulnerable to third party exploitation and in the long run it may expose your system to a variety of potential system threats. You can remove Kasimos from the PC manually, but it is always a good idea to invest in a reliable computer security tool to make sure that you have no other potentially unwanted programs on board. test

Where does Kasimos come from?

If you visit the official website for Kasimos at kasimos.net, you will notice how unfinished it looks. In fact, there is an entire list of similar websites out there that supposedly promotes such browser extensions as Wisen Wizard, Cling Clang, LemurLeap and so on. All of these applications are obviously created by the same developer. It may seem that you should be able to download Kasimos from its official website, but the download link does not work.

Thus, if you have Kasimos on your computer, it is very likely that you have installed it along with freeware that you have downloaded from a third party website. It is very easy to get unwanted applications on your computer these days – if you often use various online file converters, or download files from file hosting pages, you might accidentally click on a wrong link or a wrong button and the adware installer enters your system.

What does Kasimos do?

Computer security experts describe Kasimos as an application that belongs to coupons family. It means that this adware application gets installed on your browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome) as a browser add-on, and then you are displayed various discount deals and shopping offers whenever you access a website compatible with the application.

It goes without saying that Kasimos needs to track your web browsing history in order to provide you with personalized advertisements that would be related to your preferences. Such practice is not illegal, but it may be risky, especially considering the fact that Kasimos could be easily exploited by malicious third party to display corrupted content.

How to remove Kasimos?

Just as it has been mentioned above, Kasimos is not an extreme computer security threat, but you should remove it from the PC just to ensure that no program you have would ever be exploited by malevolent third party. Follow the manual removal instructions below to terminate Kasimos, and then run a full system scan with SpyHunter free scanner, because you may have other potentially unwanted programs installed on your computer as well. Do not hesitate to terminate them too, if they pose any threat to your system security.