Slick Savings

Posted by Lisa Blanc on September 6, 2013

What is Slick Savings?

Slick Savings is a potentially unwanted program that displays coupon offers. These coupons are supposed to improve your online shopping experience, because they basically discount offers that allow you to purchase your favorite goods at a reasonable price. Unfortunately, such browser extensions always come with the catch, and the problem with Slick Savings is that it is not a very secure application, and it could be exploited by malicious third parties. Therefore, you are highly recommended to remove Slick Savings from your computer in order to avoid potential malicious infections and protect yourself from harm.

Where does Slick Savings come from?

Although some users think that Slick Savings is a malicious computer infection that is not exactly true. As it has been mentioned above, it is merely a potentially unwanted application. It means that users often download and install Slick Savings themselves without even realizing it. The thing is that this browser extension is very often bundled with shareware that you encounter online. It means that most often the plugin comes with other applications and you may not even notice that you install more than one program. As a result, you could end up having a variety of programs you neither need nor want.

What does Slick Savings do?

This plugin should not modify your default home page or default search engine, but it does affect all main browsers – Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome – by installing an add-on. This add-on is supposed to inform you about various coupon deals and discount offers at a number of online shopping websites. Just like it has been mentioned above, the main issue regarding Slick Savings is related to its lax security. Since this plugin often functions as adware, it displays commercial pop-up advertisements. It means that if a malevolent third party decides to exploit Slick Savings, it will do so by hijacking the said pop-ups and replacing the content with their own. Naturally, it would soon lead to a dangerous malware infection.

How to remove Slick Savings?

Luckily, Slick Savings are easy to remove on your own. All you have to do is uninstall the plugin via your Control Panel. Remove Slick Savings from your system should be enough to delete the add-on from your browser as well. However, there may be other potentially unwanted programs still present in your PC. Hence, perform a full system scan with SpyHunter free scanner and once you have detected any dangerous application, remove it immediately. Do not hesitate when it comes to investing in your system security.