Threat Database Adware Daily Deal Shopper

Daily Deal Shopper

By GoldSparrow in Adware

Threat Scorecard

Ranking: 4,352
Threat Level: 10 % (Normal)
Infected Computers: 2,627
First Seen: February 20, 2014
Last Seen: September 18, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Daily Deal Shopper is an adware infection. Daily Deal Shopper is classified as adware because its main purpose is not to provide useful or interesting services but to deliver advertising and marketing content to victims' Web browsers. Daily Deal Shopper and other adware are typically considered as Potentially Unwanted Programs. PUPs are commonly not as destructive or difficult to remove as threats. However, they may be equally disruptive and seriously interfere due to their many threat-like symptoms. Daily Deal Shopper may expose your computer to other PUPs and potentially harmful content and cause various performance issues. Because of this, Daily Deal Shopper should be disabled straightaway with the help of an authentic, fully updated security application.

What is the Purpose of Daily Deal Shopper

Although Daily Deal Shopper is marketed as a way to gain access to special online deals, coupons and other offers, the real purpose of Daily Deal Shopper is to generate advertising revenue at the expense of computer users. Because of this, malware researchers advise computer users to avoid installing Daily Deal Shopper and remove Daily Deal Shopper at once if Daily Deal Shopper has already been installed. There are several ways in which Daily Deal Shopper can be used to generate revenue, including the following;

  • Daily Deal Shopper may generate advertising revenue by delivering pop-up advertisements and other types of advertisements to the affected Web browser. Daily Deal Shopper may replace all the advertisements on the websites viewed on the affected Web browser with its own sponsored content.
  • Daily Deal Shopper may also be used to carry out marketing schemes. Daily Deal Shopper may cause browser redirects to sponsored content.
  • Daily Deal Shopper may compromise your privacy by spying on your online activity and saving information about the affected computer system's settings. This information may then be sold to a third party or used for marketing research. In some cases, this information may be sold to criminals.

URLs

Daily Deal Shopper may call the following URLs:

htestspeedhere.com

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