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Awesome Shoppers Ads

Posted: August 11, 2015

Threat Metric

Threat Level: 2/10
Infected PCs: 190
First Seen: August 11, 2015
Last Seen: May 2, 2022
OS(es) Affected: Windows

While you may expect Awesome Shoppers to turn your online shopping into an awesome process, this application commonly achieves exactly the opposite. The cyber security researchers unanimously classify it as adware to give clues about its functionality. The presence of this questionable add-on is always associated with various pop-ups, banners, automatically launched videos and interstitial ads. The tool may even convert some ordinary words in the text into hyperlinks, which you can detect by the double underlining. You may notice the same behavior in all of your web clients, including the most famous Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Since these new ads are the only function of Awesome Shoppers, its developers don't have a whole arsenal of potential promotional messages. The adware is advertised as a shopping enhancer, which should save the clients money by the displayed deals, coupons and discounts. There is one catch, though – the sponsored partner pages should not be trusted. Most commonly, clicking on the ads will take you to an e-commerce platform you have never seen before. Buying anything from such sites is a venture as it may result in various scams. It is also possible some of the pop-ups and banners to take you to fraudulent pages, which offer compromised software. While staying away from the ads should keep your PC safe, the mere presence of the commercial materials may lead to speed drops, freezes or even crashes. In case you decide to put the marketing materials to an end, you should scan your machine with special security software.

Technical Details

Registry Modifications

The following newly produced Registry Values are:

HKEY..\..\..\..{RegistryKeys}SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\AwesomeShoppers.comSOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\AwesomeShoppers.com64
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