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SmartShopping.com

Posted: January 29, 2014

SmartShopping.com is a suspicious website that through the use of relevant PC threats may show annoying pop-up ads and messages on various websites if a computer system was affected by adware or a potentially unwanted program. The aim of SmartShopping.com pop-up ads and messages may be to promote numerous unreliable or commercial websites, boost their traffic and earn money from advertisements. Adware and browser hijackers that may display SmartShopping.com pop-up messages and ads may make changes to the default browser in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome Web browsers. Security threats related to SmartShopping.com may highlight words in websites that PC users visit; this may appear like there was a link added. However, when the PC user moves a mouse over the highlighted words, SmartShopping.com pop-up messages and ads may appear. Since each website may have several words highlighted, the PC user may see these pop-up ads and messages all the time, even if he touches them accidentally.

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