Do you know what Fun Shopper is?
Even though the name of Fun Shopper indicates that it can improve shopping experience, the truth is that it cannot do anything beneficial because it is an advertising-supported application. Adware programs are not as harmful as Trojans, rootkits or backdoors; however, they might still expose you to threats via ads that they generate. As can be seen, it is rather risky to keep adware installed, so we suggest that you remove Fun Shopper from your system. You will have to read through this article if you do not know how to remove adware and want to find out all the necessary information about its removal.
As has been already mentioned, we suggest that you remove Fun Shopper because it shows commercial advertisements that might redirect you to the websites that contain malicious software. It has been observed that users might click on ads accidentally; however, the majority of them click on ads because they advertise various products and services and thus look very interesting. We do not think that you want to encounter malware, so we suggest removing Fun Shopper from the system. It is worth doing that not only to stop ads from appearing, but also to put an end to other undesirable activities performed by Fun Shopper.
You should definitely do everything that it takes to prevent programs similar to Fun Shopper from entering your system. Actually, it might be rather difficult to do that yourself, so we highly recommend that you acquire an antimalware tool and leave the work for it. Keep in mind that only reliable tools will help you to protect your system from malicious software. Even though a trustworthy tool will help you to block the way for malware, you should still surf the Internet carefully in order to be 100% safe.
It is very likely that you will be able to remove Fun Shopper via Control Panel. Of course, different versions of this program might exist and they might act slightly differently. If you still see advertisements after the removal of Fun Shopper, there is a possibility that our manual removal instructions have not helped you to get rid of it or there are other adware programs that generate ads installed on your PC. Thus, it would be smart to scan your system with an automatic scanner.
Remove Fun Shopper
Windows XP
- Click the Start button.
- Select Control Panel.
- Click Add or Remove Programs.
- Select the unwanted program and click Remove.
Windows 7 and Vista
- Navigate to the bottom-left corner and click on the Start menu button.
- Select Control Panel.
- Click Uninstall a program.
- Right-click on Fun Shopper.
- Click Uninstall.
Windows 8
- Tap the Windows key + R simultaneously.
- Enter control panel, click OK, and click Uninstall a program.
- Select the suspicious application.
- Click Uninstall.
In non-techie terms:
As has been already mentioned, you should install an antimalware tool, such as SpyHunter, on your computer in order not to allow programs similar to Fun Shopper to slither onto your PC in the future. In addition, you should not download programs from suspicious file-sharing and torrent websites because you might install hundreds of malicious programs after clicking on the fake Download button once.