Spider Sally Ads

The Spider Sally is a Potentially Unwanted Program (PUP) whose official website can be found at Spidersally.com. The page appears to be safe, and the only content it includes is a download button, which refers users to the Chrome Store page of the Spider Sally extension. Above of the download button, visitors can find a short snippet of text, which tells them a bit more about the Spider Sally – a browser add-on, which is supposed to help users find great and entertaining online games while they are browsing the Web. While it is true that the Spider Sally may provide users with links to some interesting online games, it is important to mention that the games the Spider Sally promotes are hosted on 3rd-party websites. This means that all the Spider Sally does is to refer users to other websites, which host collections of online Flash games.

One would think that an extension that provides access to games would not be a suspicious one, but the installation of the Spider Sally requires the user to permit the add-on to change their Chrome browser's homepage and new tab page. Unfortunately, these actions are not considered to be very user-friendly, since it is impossible for users to proceed with the installation unless they agree to allow the Spider Sally to change their default new tab page to Home.spidersally.com and their search provider to Search.spidersally.com.

Using the websites the Spider Sally promotes will redirect the user to a search results page hosted by Google. Overall, the Spider Sally may not be a harmful program, and its search seems reliable as well since it redirects to Google. However, the contents of the websites that the Spider Sally promotes may change at any point, and their search features might not be that reliable in the future. If you have the Spider Sally installed and you are thinking of getting rid of this PUP, then you should know that you can achieve this via manual removal from Chrome's settings. However, if you want to be certain that all of the Spider Sally's files will be gone, then we advise you to carry out the task with the assistance of a credible anti-malware utility.