Shopping Buddy is a program that promises to help you do shopping online and even to save some money. It seems that this program is aimed at people living in the Netherlands; however, it might enter your system if your place of residence is different as well. If you have already detected Shopping Buddy on your computer, make sure that you remove it as soon as possible. Actually, many computer users do not want to erase Shopping Buddy because it looks like a decent application; however, the truth is that it might cause serious harm to your system. We do not think that you want to be exposed to threats, so we suggest erasing this program as soon as possible. It is not enough to delete it via Control Panel. In order to find out what you should also do, you should read through this article.
Researchers working at 411-spyware.com have noticed that Shopping Buddy is going to show various commercial advertisements on your screen; thus, it falls into the category of advertising-supported applications (adware). Actually, it is not worth keeping adware programs installed because they will not stop showing commercial advertisements and you might be exposed to threats very quickly. According to our security specialists, you might end up on some kind of corrupted website full of malicious software after clicking on any of the ads once because there is a huge possibility that you will click on the advertisement with an unreliable link embedded into it. If you do not want to allow various threats to enter your system, you have to ignore all those ads. You should also not forget that it is possible to click on them accidentally, so it would be really smart to stop them from appearing by removing Shopping Buddy.
Shopping Buddy is usually distributed via various malicious installers, which means that it might slither onto your computer even if you do not live in the Netherlands. According to our specialists, there is basically no doubt that other untrustworthy programs have been installed alongside Shopping Buddy if it has slithered onto your PC without permission. Make sure that you remove them all because they might do various suspicious activities behind your back.
You have to remove Shopping Buddy if you want to stop ads from appearing and thus reduce the possibility to infect the system with malicious software. In order to fully remove this adware, you will have to erase it via Control Panel and then remove extensions from all the browsers via the Add-ons Manager. If you feel that you will not be able to do that yourself, you should definitely use SpyHunter or any other security tool. It will be enough to scan the system with an automatic malware remover and all the threats will be deleted for you.
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