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Shopr.com

Posted: January 5, 2012

Shopr.com Screenshot 1In its promotional materials, Shopr.com mimics the aesthetics of a site that has plenty of beneficial shopping-related features for finding and collaborating on products, but the seedy truth behind Shopr.com's marketing is much grimmer than that. Shopr.com exists only to redirect trusting visitors to sites that are crammed with advertisements so that Shopr.com can make a small amount of change from each victim that Shopr.com redirects. Even initial exposure to Shopr.com is almost always the result of a browser redirect attack by a browser-hijacking Trojan or rootkit, and any contact with Shopr.com may be a sign of an active PC threat on your computer. You can remove browser hijackers for Shopr.com and halt accompanying redirects with any competent anti-malware scanner, although extra measures to disable malicious background processes may also be necessary for complete deletion.

Shopr.com: Shopping for Fresh Victims to Redirect for Profit

Shopr.com has the appearance of a shopping assistance site, but the actual features that Shopr.com possesses are nothing more than various ways to redirect you to whatever sites that Shopr.com prefers – which always happen to be sites that give profit back to Shopr.com's web masters in one way or another. Links from Shopr.com are most likely to be advertisement-based websites, but SpywareRemove.com malware experts also warn of the possibility of exposure to scamware sites that sell rogue security programs, phishing sites that attempt to steal personal information or sites that attack your PC via browser vulnerabilities. If you do find yourself at Shopr.com, naturally, the safest thing to do is to slam-closed the site's window and continue on your way without interacting with its bad-faith services.

SpywareRemove.com malware researchers have found that, in most cases, visits to Shopr.com are forced by browser hijackers that redirect your browser away from other sites and to Shopr.com. These redirects to Shopr.com may attack any type of web browser due to being based on basic changes to Windows settings that map malicious URLs onto unrelated ones. Shopr.com's browser hijackers are also known for their affinity with Bestmarkstore.com, a site that should be considered just as dangerous for your PC as Shopr.com.

Shaking Off the Shopr.com Redirect Bug

Even though browser hijackers for Shopr.com and Bestmarkstore.com will attempt to avoid deletion and may not even present an obvious memory process to be shut down, SpywareRemove.com malware researchers are pleased to note that they can be removed with good anti-malware scanners. Rebooting into Safe Mode, eschewing Windows entirely for the Command Prompt, or other methods of disabling unwanted processes are all recommended and will make sure that Shopr.com's browser hijacker isn't enabled while you try to remove Shopr.com.

In the meantime, there are also measures that you can take to protect your browser from ongoing and future Shopr.com attacks. Disabling scripts and using other safe browser settings will help to reduce the possibility of drive-by-download assaults that could install a Shopr.com browser hijacker. Keeping all relevant software up-to-date will reduce other potential security flaws, while the presence of anti-malware products can help to detect intrusions by Shopr.com-related PC threats as they occur.

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