Savings Shield

Posted by Max Lehmann on October 3, 2013

What is Savings Shield?

Savings Shield is an adware application that is responsible for displaying a list of coupons and pop-up ads whenever you access a popular online store. It is supposed to improve your online shopping experience and help you save money on your purchases. Nevertheless, computer security experts warn that this program might as well be a potentially unwanted application that could expose your system to various security risks. It is important to remove Savings Shield immediately if you do not find the application useful, and then invest in a licensed antimalware tool that would protect your PC from other unwanted intruders. test Download Removal Tool100% FREE spyware scan and
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Where does Savings Shield come from?

Savings Shield is related to such coupon ad family members as Savings Scout and other applications developed by Innovative Apps. The official website for Savings Shield can be accessed as Savings-shield.com. There you are told that the browser add-on works with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer, although if you try downloading it, you get a pop-up message that Savings Shield is currently unavailable.

Then the question arises as to how users end up installing the application on your computers if it is not available at its official website? The thing is that Savings Shield and all the other similar potentially unwanted programs are more often than not bundled with freeware that is distributed via third party websites. Hence, if you install a freeware application that is related to Savings Shields, you install the adware app as well.

What does Savings Shield do?

Officially Savings Shield collects information on coupons and discount offers for such websites as Expedia, kmart, Office Depot, Petsmart, Toys R us, Zales and over a 1000 of others. Afterwards, each time you visit a particular website compatible with Savings Shield, you are displayed various pop-ups that contain discount offers, supposedly allowing you to save money on your purchases.

The problem is that the pop-ups might get too annoying and even dangerous. Savings Shield is making use of a third party advertising network to collect information on coupons, and so the connection might be reciprocal – a third party could embed its own content on Savings Shield’s pop ups thus luring you to click on an ad that might redirect you to a potentially unsafe website.

How to remove Savings Shield?

Although a malware infection is an extreme consequence of Savings Shield installation, you should not risk it, because adware programs are quite often related to a huge number of security issues which cannot be overlooked. Therefore, follow instructions below to uninstall Savings Shield from your computer, and then run a full system scan with SpyHunter free scanner in order to make sure that you have no other potentially dangerous programs installed on your PC. Invest in a reliable antimalware tool to safeguard your system if necessary.