ShoppingDealFactory

ShoppingDealFactory is adware that changes your browser so that ShoppingDealFactory loads new advertising content, which ShoppingDealFactory supposedly organizes for online shopping benefits. Because, in reality, ShoppingDealFactory's advertisements provide poor value in exchange for their security and performance issues, ShoppingDealFactory may be installed by semi-consensual and non-consensual methods, such as bundling platforms with other applications. Scanning free installers from suspicious sources should allow you to catch the most obvious ShoppingDealFactory installations, and removing ShoppingDealFactory afterward, as urged by malware experts, always can be done with good anti-adware suites.

ShoppingDealFactory Arises from a Factory of Unwanted Software

ShoppingDealFactory is a product of WebPick Internet Holdings, a company whose footprints malware researchers regularly encounter in the business of examining unwanted toolbars and browser add-ons. Products from this company include a range of different Potentially Unwanted Programs, but, primarily, focus on delivering advertisements, like ShoppingDealFactory. ShoppingDealFactory and related PUPs may be installed by variants of InstalleRex-WebPick, a utility that bundles multiple programs together into a single installation file.

A small number of anti-malware brands identify ShoppingDealFactory as a Trojan, but malware experts found no actual, threatening functions from this adware. However, functions associated with ShoppingDealFactory may provide unwanted Web-browsing modifications, such as:

• Injecting additional HTML advertisements into Web pages, especially pages associated with major e-retailers (eBay, Amazon, etc.). Because this injected content may modify the format of the affected Web page, it may cause general content-accessibility problems.
• Resetting your default search engine or homepage to sites favored by WebPick Internet Holdings for traffic-revenue purposes.

ShoppingDealFactory's last known Web domain is no longer under maintenance, and malware experts only can estimate that ShoppingDealFactory's major distribution methods rely on bundles with third-party programs. Standard sources of such bundles include software-piracy networks and some free software websites, with the latter often offering wide ranges of products – without mentioning the inclusion of bundled PUPs.

Avoiding an Automatic Deal with ShoppingDealFactory

ShoppingDealFactory may offer its advertisements as shopping benefits, but such advertising content is a frequent source of third-party attacks against affected PCs. Regardless of the possible danger in any individual ShoppingDealFactory advertisement, removing ShoppingDealFactory and all of its browser changes are more likely than not to be a net positive to your browser's performance. InstalleRex-WebPick and many other bundling applications that might install ShoppingDealFactory are best detected by general anti-adware and anti-malware products. Regardless, a general avoidance of sites that distribute WebPick Internet Holdings-brand software is the most direct way of protecting your Web browser.

While dealing with ShoppingDealFactory, you also may wish to watch for possible dangers associated with most adware. Exposure to fake software updates that download threats as well as contact with phishing attacks that may collect information are highly correlated with adware contact. As a rule, avoiding software that displays excessive advertisement content automatically will provide other threats with a much-lessened surface area from which to attack your PC.