Shopping Suggestions
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| Ranking: | 4,839 |
| Threat Level: | 20 % (Normal) |
| Infected Computers: | 7,491 |
| First Seen: | December 16, 2013 |
| Last Seen: | September 19, 2023 |
| OS(es) Affected: | Windows |
Shopping Suggestions is categorized as a PUP or Potentially Unwanted Program. The main purpose of Shopping Suggestions is to monetize at the cost of computer users. Shopping Suggestions does this by exposing computer users to advertisements and potentially harmful content. PUPs like Shopping Suggestions have many of the same symptoms of various threats but is not regarded as threatening as viruses or Trojans because they are often easier to remove or deal with than other kind of threats. Shopping Suggestions is a Web browser add-on, affecting popular Web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Shopping Suggestions is distributed by bundling Shopping Suggestions with low quality free software that is distributed on questionable Web pages. Although Shopping Suggestions is marketed as a useful Web browser add-on, Shopping Suggestions may cause a wide variety of issues on an affected computer. Because of this, malware analysts strongly suggest computer users to refrain from installing Shopping Suggestions. If Shopping Suggestions is already accommodated on your Web browser, this PUP infection should be removed, preferably using a powerful security program that is fully up-to-date.
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Common Problems that May Be Associated with the Shopping Suggestions PUP
Malware analysts have linked Shopping Suggestions with many problems that may occur on affected computer systems. The following issues may be in connection with Shopping Suggestions:
- Shopping Suggestions may change your Web browser settings. Shopping Suggestions may change the affected Web browser's home page and default search engine. This ensures that computer users are exposed to websites associated with Shopping Suggestions as soon as the affected Web browser starts up. The affected Web browser's security settings may also be affected, making it more vulnerable to potentially harmful online content.
- Shopping Suggestions may hijack the affected Web browser, causing it to visit certain websites repeatedly. Shopping Suggestions redirects cause the affected computer user to be exposed to harmful content.
- Shopping Suggestions may be connected to several types of advertising content, including pop-up advertisements, banners and in-text pop-up content. Shopping Suggestions advertisements may expose computer users to threatening content and other PUPs associated with similar marketing tactics.
SpyHunter Detects & Remove Shopping Suggestions
File System Details
| # | File Name | MD5 |
Detections
Detections: The number of confirmed and suspected cases of a particular threat detected on
infected computers as reported by SpyHunter.
|
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Shopping Suggestion.dll | 74c30b81e46f3f22149066d074c8a034 | 3,921 |
| 2. | {D394D188-BAC7-4e03-8FAF-389A4D7EC6F4}.xpi | eb63d620f54a91d072021a1136e4456a | 44 |
| 3. | Shopping Suggestion.dll | 6c52fb6a3ab0b1063ce3469aab1d1cc2 | 0 |
Registry Details
Directories
Shopping Suggestions may create the following directory or directories:
| %APPDATA%\D394D188-BAC7-4e03-8FAF-389A4D7EC6F4 |
| %ProgramFiles%\Shopping Suggestion |
| %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Shopping Suggestion |
URLs
Shopping Suggestions may call the following URLs:
| {4e38134d-ba98-4066-b898-e296d8acc938} |
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