What is Shopping Assistant?

What is Shopping Assistant?

Shopping Assistant is annoying application that you should not keep on your computer. The name of this application tells you itself that it is a browser add-on. This add-on can be added to all most popular web browsers, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Even though developers of Shopping Assistant is an application designed to provide you special offers, coupons and deals when you are not even looking for them and help you save both your money and time when shopping online, this program is not going to save neither time or money. Contrarily,  it will disturb your web browsing and waste your time this way and will put you into the danger of losing your money. As you can see, Shopping Assistant is listed as an adware and a PUP (potentially unwanted program) not for no reason. Once installed, it will display continuous ads on your web browser. Those ads can come in all kinds of forms, including pop-ups, pop-unders, banner advertisements or initial ads. It is worth mentioning, that those ads is provided by third parties and Shopping Assistant is not responsible for them. That means that they can be malicious and fake. That’s why you should not click on them, because once you do so, you will be immediately redirected to third parties websites that may be infected by cyber criminals and cause harm to your computer. Furthermore, Shopping Assistant will collect your personal information, such as IP address, search queries or browsing history and transfer it to mentioned third parties. They adjust their ads according to it and make them more relevant to your browsing habits this way. This is how Shopping Assistant makes manoey – it generates web traffic and collects sales leads. IF you have noticed this malicious application operating on your computer, you should wait no more and take needed actions to remove it right away.

As most of other adware, Shopping Assistant is distributed by the same unfair distribution method. It is travelling bundled with free software that can be downloaded from the Internet. I.e. when you download and install this application, there is a chance that this adware will be installed alongside, behind your back. That being said, if you don’t want to end up with Shopping Assistant displaying you tons of various ads, you should be very careful during the installation of freebies downloaded from a suspicious looking websites. Do not skip any steps and don’t just click “next” and “agree”. Opt out for a custom or advanced install mode as well. This will allow you to see all available options. If you see that some additional software that you are not aware of is being installed alongside, you should not allow it. In case your computer is already infected, we highly recommend to scan it with a trustworthy anti-malware, such as Spyhunter or malwarebytes and it will solve the problem automatically. If you prefer to perform this manually, just follow our step-by-step Shopping Assistant removal guide given below.