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Fun2Save

Posted: January 3, 2014

Threat Metric

Ranking: 9,299
Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 8,722
First Seen: January 3, 2014
Last Seen: October 15, 2023
OS(es) Affected: Windows

Fun2Save is a shopping add-on that is considered adware for its use of persistent advertisements that aren't necessarily beneficial to you or controllable by you in terms of format. Although Fun2Save's advertisements aren't risky to you in the same way that actual threats would be, they do have the potential to harm your computer's safety or performance, and don't give you any significant advantages with respect to shopping online. Deleting Fun2Save is the response that would be recommended by malware researchers. However, without the use of strong security software with a background in uninstalling similar adware, the removal of Fun2Save from your browser is likely to be incomplete.

Why It's not So Much Fun to Save Fun2Save's Way

Fun2Save is a recognizable member of a common subgroup of adware, the adware browser plugin that tries to convince you that its advertisements will provide you unexpected access to new products, prices or special offers. While, to be fair, Fun2Save does organize its advertising content to show shopping-based offers, its offers are unlikely to be any advantageous than the ones you may find with a search engine and no extra help. Malware researchers find Fun2Save advertisements most often delivered in a Web page-injected format, which may modify the content of a site in undesirable ways (by blocking a navigation menu or other interfaces).

Since Fun2Save advertisements are loaded automatically and can't be disabled without removing Fun2Save, Fun2Save also is an inherent performance drawback for your browser, which may become unstable or take longer than usual to load a Web page. Advertisements through Fun2Save also run the risk of endangering your PC with other potentially toxic content, which is why malware researchers recommend disabling and removing any program that shows little discrimination in its choices of advertising partners.

The Real Fun in Getting Your Browser Back from Fun2Save

Fun2Save is more than just an advertisement deliverer, but also a way for advertising affiliates to track the behavior of their audiences. By using cookies and similar tracking methods, Fun2Save may keep track of which sites you visit and what searches you make, turning this data over to third parties and using it to organize its choices of advertisements. Since this trivial spying function can't be turned off while Fun2Save is installed, this is a second possible source of performance problems for your browser. Putting all of these negatives together, you should have little hesitation about removing Fun2Save with whatever PC security software you feel is best equipped to handle adware.

Fun2Save has been may be compatible with Internet Explorer and Firefox, two of the most prominent Windows browsers, although its compatibility with Chrome appears to be forthcoming. Downloading Fun2Save from its own website certainly is possible, but most adware programs also use multiple-program-bundling installers to find new computers. Scanning files from suspicious sites before installing them will offer you a simple way of finding Fun2Save before its advertisements find you.

Technical Details

File System Modifications

Tutorials: If you wish to learn how to remove malware components manually, you can read the tutorials on how to find malware, kill unwanted processes, remove malicious DLLs and delete other harmful files. Always be sure to back up your PC before making any changes.

The following files were created in the system:



%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Fun2Save\qmCFAl.x64.dll File name: qmCFAl.x64.dll
Size: 474.62 KB (474624 bytes)
MD5: 88ebac1ccb81a0fcf664632af5fa6a47
Detection count: 555
File type: Dynamic link library
Mime Type: unknown/dll
Path: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Fun2Save
Group: Malware file
Last Updated: August 6, 2014
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