Shopping Blast

Shopping Blast is another advertising-supported program that spams your web browser with various commercial offers. You should remove this adware application from your PC immediately, because Shopping Blast might play a role in exposing your computer to various Internet-based dangers. What users rarely know about adware programs is that they do not take responsibility for the content that lies behind all the featured third-party ads. This program might serve you fake ads that, when clicked, might, for example, initiate the download of malware content, or lead you to the online scams set up by cyber criminals. Thus, you should do everything in your power to delete Shopping Blast, because the longer you tolerate its presence on your system, the larger is the possibility that it will be misused to take down your computer’s security.

When Shopping Blast becomes active on your PC, it unleashes third-party advertising content on your web browser. As it has already been mentioned, these links are not always reliable, so you should keep away from them. The showcasing of the third-party content might not be suspicious behavior for an adware app, but you should know that there are other questionable activities Shopping Blast engages in. For example, it collects such information as browsing history, search queries, IP settings, browser settings, and other, to personalize the featured material on your screen. As security experts do not support any kind of surveillance carried out by questionable applications, you should take the immediate action to remove Shopping Blast. Besides that, this program might also “forget” to inform you about its connection to the Internet to drop additional malicious content onto your PC.

Shopping Blast was developed by utilizing the CrossRider engine, which was also employed to create such adware programs as Cinema Now, BingTracker, WindowSecure Scanner, and others. All these applications reach target systems via software bundles offered on freeware sharing or torrent sites. Thus, as we are sure you do not want to upload Shopping Blast to your system in tandem with other malicious programs, it is best that you observe the general rules of safe web browsing. Most importantly, do not click on various ads (fake download buttons) offering software updates; also, always choose the custom installation process to uncheck the unrecognized components.

Shopping Blast might be easily modified by criminal entities to compromise your computer or take hold of sensitive data. So, we strongly advise that you remove Shopping Blast right now. You can delete this adware app by following our step-by-step instructions below. However, bear in mind that a licensed antimalware scanner is a better tool to clean up your system from Shopping Blast and all the potentially dangerous content it might have helped to infiltrate your PC.

How to remove Shopping Blast

Windows 8 and 8.1

1. Open the Charm bar and click Search.
2. Enter “control panel” and go to Control Panel.
3. Open Programs and Features.
4. Select Shopping Blast in the program list and click Uninstall/Change.

Windows 7 and Vista

1. Open the Start menu and choose Control Panel.
2. Click Programs and go to Uninstall a program.
3. Select the application you want to remove.
4. Click Uninstall/Change.

Windows XP

1. Open the Start menu and select Control Panel.
2. Go to Add or Remove Programs.
3. In the program list, find the program you want to delete.
4. Click Remove to get rid of the unwanted app.