ShopSave.Me

Posted by Sarah Stewart on April 23, 2014

What is ShopSave.Me?

ShopSave.Me is an adware application that has been designed to collect data on a variety of shopping offers on a number of online shopping websites and then present these offers in a form of coupons and discount pop-ups to you. Technically, the application should help you save money when you shop online, but computer security specialists strongly advise against keeping ShopSave.Me on your computer. You should remove ShopSave.Me from the system before it results in serious computer security threats. Having an adware application installed on the PC is never a good idea, because such apps can be easily exploited by malevolent third parties. test test

Where does ShopSave.Me come from?

ShopSave.Me is published by KangoExtensions and during the installation you are given a link to the publisher’s website, should you want to visit it. The application can be downloaded at shopsave.me. Our security research specialists do not offer any additional distribution methods, but it is clear that this adware application might be distributed bundled with adware and freeware as well, because it is a common method employed by a variety of adware applications.

What is more, even if you download ShopSave.Me the official website, you will also get Savings Bull installed on your computer, which is also a potentially unwanted adware application.

What does ShopSave.Me do?

Since it is an adware application, ShopSave.Me mostly displays commercial pop-ups. Users often complain about annoying pop-ups when they access online shopping malls. If you have this application installed on your computer, chances are that your browsing sessions will be interfered quite often, because ShopSave.Me supports over a thousand online shopping websites.

The pop-ups will contain various offers that might allow you purchase something at an optimal price, but you should think twice before clicking any ad delivered by ShopSave.Me, because you can never know whether it is 100%.

ShopSave.Me and other similar adware applications do not and cannot check all the content that is embedded in their pop-ups, so you might get redirected to potentially dangerous websites that pull you into online marketing schemes, or expose you to malware.

How to remove ShopSave.Me?

Due to the fact that ShopSave.Me poses certain security risks, you should consider removing ShopSave.Me from your computer right now. Manual removal is not complicated and you can terminate ShopSave.Me easily via Control Panel.

However, there might be other unwanted programs and some leftover files lingering in the system after you have ShopSave.Me removed. To locate the files and determine the programs, scan the system with SpyHunter free scanner and then do not hesitate to acquire a licensed antimalware tool that would help you protect your system from any potential threats.

Make sure you download and install only legal and copyrighted applications on your computer; otherwise you might be putting your system at risk.