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ShopAtHome.com

Posted: September 2, 2013

ShopAtHome.com Screenshot 1ShopAtHome.com is a fake e-coupon website that pretends to offer online coupons as a hook to encourage visitors to install their toolbar and miscellaneous adware programs. Since ShopAtHome.com can't provide any legitimate coupons even after these applications are installed, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have classified ShopAtHome.com as a scam website. ShopAtHome.com-affiliated applications and browser add-ons do not have any advantages for your computer or online shopping experience, and it's suggested that you use anti-malware programs to delete any software from this site posthaste.

Shopping at a Site with Nothing but Empty Aisles

ShopAtHome.com is designed to resemble a legitimate online coupon tracker, but, in reality, is a purveyor of adware and other low-level PC threats without any legitimate coupon-acquiring features. Even set apart from its actual content, ShopAtHome.com has a history of attempting to rig community rating sites in its favor and promote itself through spam, making ShopAtHome.com a highly disreputable website once one digs past its shiny marketing surface.

Several PC threats that are installed through ShopAtHome.com, including a ShopAtHome.com toolbar, a separate adware program and a browser launcher, all of which are still being distributed. Since ShopAtHome.com's supposed 'coupons' aren't accessible until you install its software, this makes ShopAtHome.com a quick and easy infection vector. Besides the obvious ShopAtHome.com advertisements and pop-ups, symptoms of a ShopAtHome.com-related infection also may include some substantial browser slowdowns, as well as loss of your basic Web-browsing privacy (ShopAtHome.com's software includes some Web habits-monitoring functions).

Sweeping the Aisles Clean of ShopAtHome.com's Add-Ons

ShopAtHome.com software may be classified as Potentially Unwanted Programs, adware or browser hijackers, but always should be removed from your computer since they don't have any benefits with respect to acquiring online coupons – or anything else. SpywareRemove.com malware researchers advise that anyone shopping for coupons online be particularly careful about using only sites that have been widely confirmed as reputable.

Above all else, you never should install software from a suspicious site whose supposed business functions are not related to the functions performed by the program in question. A ShopAtHome.com toolbar and related adware can be removed with anti-malware utilities through appropriately in-depth system scans, and SpywareRemove.com malware researchers especially encourage conducting any such scans from Safe Mode for a maximum of efficiency.
At this time, ShopAtHome.com adware, toolbars and PUPs are compatible with most Windows browsers, but not with non-Windows OSes.

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