ClixSense Toolbar

Posted: September 6, 2013

Threat Metric

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Threat Level: The threat level scale goes from 1 to 10 where 10 is the highest level of severity and 1 is the lowest level of severity. Each specific level is relative to the threat's consistent assessed behaviors collected from SpyHunter's risk assessment model.

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Ranking:	3,694
Threat Level:	1/10
Infected PCs:	9,809

First Seen:	September 6, 2013
Last Seen:	October 16, 2023
OS(es) Affected:	Windows

The ClixSense Toolbar is an adware program that pulls advertisements from the ClixSense advertising network. Although the ClixSense company claims that participating in its advertisements allows their toolbar users to reap financial rewards, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have noted that many of the marketing claims surrounding the ClixSense Toolbar are heavily exaggerated. Trusting the ClixSense Toolbar as an advertisement distributor is unwise at best, and anti-malware software usually should be used to remove the ClixSense Toolbar once you've realized there's little gain to be had from interacting with its advertisements.

Why We Hope You Have the Good Sense to Avoid Clicking a ClixSense Toolbar's Advertisement

The ClixSense Toolbar is the user's software side of a pay-per-click advertising program enacted by ClixSense, with the company claiming to provide a small amount of money for interacting with advertisements or referring others who do the same. However, there are several signs of a typical pyramid scheme surrounding ClixSense and their ClixSense Toolbar which SpywareRemove.com malware experts have noted in the following list:

The ClixSense Toolbar requires a premium registration before earning any money becomes practical.
The ClixSense Toolbar is promoted through spam e-mail messages and heavy reliance on referrals that encourage new users to recruit as many other users as possible.
The ClixSense Toolbar has been known to display advertisements.
The ClixSense Toolbar's advertisements often fail to load properly with no compensation for the user's time.
Sites related to ClixSense Toolbars have been known to use excessive quantities of tracking cookies (automatically downloaded files that monitor your Web-browsing habits) for dubious purposes.

A Sensible Solution for Getting Out of a ClixSense Problem

Particularly if you're canny enough to avoid participating in its advertisements, the ClixSense Toolbar is unlikely to harm your PC directly. However, removing the ClixSense Toolbar usually is encouraged since its advertising functions make the ClixSense Toolbar essentially no different from a common adware program with few to no advantages for the user. If you have any issues with deleting the ClixSense Toolbar, or, especially, for circumstances where you're unsure how ClixSense Toolbar was installed in the first place, the use of anti-malware tools is recommended by SpywareRemove.com malware experts for guaranteeing as complete a deletion as is possible.

From time to time, toolbars like ClixSense Toolbars are distributed through software bundles. Attempting to download a separate application from an insecure site often may result in contamination by the ClixSense Toolbar or another browser add-on with similar intentions. Always double-check the history of a download source before you trust its files, and be cautious about any interaction with sites that have histories of distributing threats of any stripe – even if it's just a low-level PC threat like the ClixSense Toolbar.

ClixSense Toolbar

Threat Metric

Why We Hope You Have the Good Sense to Avoid Clicking a ClixSense Toolbar's Advertisement

A Sensible Solution for Getting Out of a ClixSense Problem

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