Shop Smart

The advertisements displayed by a free application called Shop Smart are caused by an adware program. Shop Smart advertisements may appear on the websites visited by the computer user out of nowhere, and may take the form of video advertisements, banners, coupons and fake updates for Java, Adobe Flash Player or your browser. While online shopping, computer users may believe in Shop Smart claims of being a useful helper and install it on their machines. The usual way used by Shop Smart to introduce itself to a computer is being bundled with free software. Once installed, Shop Smart may cause various problems on the affected PC. Shop Smart may interrupt the computer user's online browsing by covering the visited Web page with its invasive advertisements. The affected machine may present a decreased performance due to its high usage of system resources, and the computer user's browsing searches may be captured by Shop Smart related adware and shared with advertisement generators.