SupraSavings

Posted by Sarah Stewart on April 3, 2014

What is SupraSavings?

You have SupraSavings installed on your computer if you see a lot of pop-up advertisements appear on your web browser and most of them are labeled as “ads by SupraSavings” or “brought by SupraSavings”. This adware application may slow down your browser and expose you to a variety of annoying commercial advertisements. It is in your best interest to remove SupraSavings from your computer. Adware applications are not computer malware, but they pose certain computer security risks that should be taken into consideration. Therefore, the sooner you remove SupraSavings from the system the better.

Where does SupraSavings come from?

According to our security research SupraSavings is practically identical to Savings Bull adware application. The main home page for this application can be accessed at suprasavings.com. There you are greeted by a bold promotion tag-line that says “Download Now, Save Instantly! Why pay more when you can save a lot on your favorite websites”. Right below the tag-line you can see the download button but it does not work.

Rather than being downloaded from the official website, SupraSavings is most often bundled with various adware applications and potentially unwanted programs. Packs of potentially unwanted applications are usually up for download at third party file hosting websites, or they are installed automatically without any prompt when you make use of a third party software installer.

What does SupraSavings do?

When this application gets installed on your browser, it is supposed to help you find the best apparel for the lowest prices online. Whenever you access such websites as BestBuy, Barnes & Noble, Expedia, PetSmart, Walmart, Zappos and many others, SupraSavings will displays commercial advertisements that will offer you to purchase a product at an optimal price.

Apart from displaying an extensive amount of commercial pop-ups, SupraSavings also brings a number of other adware helpers on your system. These adware helpers help adware programs to generate even more pop-up windows that slow down your computer and interrupt your web browsing process.

How to remove SupraSavings?

It is obvious that in order to ensure your computer functions properly, you need to get rid of SupraSavings and then terminate all the other related adware applications. As it has been mentioned above, it is very likely that adware apps travel in packs and there is a high possibility that apart from SupraSavings you have other potentially unwanted applications installed on your PC.

Removing SupraSavings via Control Panel will remove the extensions from your browser as well, but that does not mean that all undesirable files are deleted as well. To terminate all the unwanted files and programs for good, you should invest in a licensed antimalware tool that will get rid of all the remaining files that are hiding in your system.