Friday, July 25, 2014

What is Buycheapr? - how to remove it?

Buycheapr is a free application that was designed to provide ads with various offers to shop on the Internet. It’s an ad-supported background program that is supposed to check information about users browsing habits and use it for marketing related purposes. It checks your behavior on the Internet and generates ads according to your interests. Buycheapr Ads offer various discounts, promo codes and other deals to shop online. At first sight, they may even look useful, but they actually contain sponsored links, which sometimes are even irrelevant to the ad, and by clicking on them, you will only help adware creators to increase traffic of affiliate websites.

You may also see some in-text ads by Buycheapr. The adware highlight some words on the websites that you visit and once you hover your mouse over these words, more ads will popup. Not only these ads make your browsing experience very annoying, but also you can end up visiting compromised websites. Beware that you can get various viruses and malware installed into your system by visiting suspicious websites.

To avoid Buycheapr Ads, you have to be more attentive when installing various software from the Internet. This type of adware come bundled to free players, download managers, PDF creators, etc. They can also be added to the main installers of some download websites. It is strongly recommended to read Terms and Agreements of your new downloads. Also follow their installation steps, so you would be able to refuse additional downloads, if any are indicated. Security experts recommend always choosing Custom or Advanced installation to see any bundles.

To remove Buycheapr Ads, follow the instructions provided below. You can also remove this adware automatically by running a full system scan with a reputable antispyware program, for example, malwarebytes or Spyhunter. Remember that you have to download the latest version of these programs to ensure effective scan.

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