What is Shopping Chip? - How to remove it?

What is Shopping Chip?

Shopping Chip is a browser add-on that can be added to all most popular web browsers, such as Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Even though this application is described as an useful one, it is not true. Here is a text from its’ official website: “Wasting precious time on saving money has come to a halt! Allow shoppingchip to do all the dirty work for you. Continue shopping online at your favorite stores, and shoppingchip will offer you the best deals with the lowest prices, from coupons, to discounts and the hottest sales. Our plug-in can be added to your browser for free and shall make your shopping dreams come true! It shall offer you suitable coupons and discounts whilst you are shopping, and most importantly will help you reduce your expenses!”. As you see, Shopping Chip is supposed to find the best deals online for you and help you save your both time and money when shopping online this way. Unfortunately, those ads come mostly from third parties and therefore can be malicious. A lot of distributors of malware, scammers and other cyber criminals use this advertising network to promote their malicious products or services. That means Shopping Chip is a complete waste of time and you should not keep it on your computer as it can lead you to some more serious cyber security problems. Furthermore, it will collect your personal information, such as browsing history, IP address or search queries and transfer it to mentioned third parties. They adjust their ads according to it and make them more relevant and attractive to you. ShoppingChip seeks to generate web traffic and collect sale leads because they gain revenue this way. If you noticed that various pop-up or banner ads labeled with slogan “Ads by Shopping Chip” appears on your web browser, you should wait no more and take needed actions to remove this adware from your computer.

Usually Shopping Chip is distributed bundled with free software that an be downloaded from the Internet. I.e. when you download and install some software for free, there is a chance that Shopping Chip will be installed alongside. For that reason you should run installation wizards very carefully. Do not skip any steps and opt out for a custom or advanced install mode. See all available options and make sure no unwanted applications is being installed behind your back. If it is too late and your computer is already infected, you should scan it with a trustworthy anti-malware, such as Spyhunter or malwarebytes. It will solve the problem automatically and protect your computer from the malware in the future. In case you don’t want to use any additional software, you can perform this manually, just follow our step-by=step Shopping Chip removal guide given below.