Shopping Assistant ads. How to remove? (Uninstall guide)
What is Shopping Assistant?
Shopping Assistant is an adware-type program, which may start bothering you with its ads and deals that report about various discounts and other offers. If they have just started interrupting you, you should think what free application has just been installed on your computer. Beware that there are thousands of potentially unwanted programs (adwares, browser hijackers, etc.) that are hidden inside the freeware in exchange for money. You need to monitor installation of such free applications to protect yourself and install only what you really need. Fortunately, this adware is not a malicious infection, so if you think that it has infiltrated your computer, you can remove Shopping Assistant from it without lots of effort. However, you should stop thinking that it’s a wonderful app that can be used for shopping online. In fact, there are lots of internet users who have already reported us about the opposite effect of Shopping Assistant adware. Beware that it’s a typical potentially unwanted program that may initiate many unwanted activities behind your back.
Annoying Shopping Assistant ads are not the worst thing that could happen after installing program on the system. Beware that after clicking them, they may redirect you to unknown, suspicious and untrustworthy websites. There is no guarantee that one of such websites is not infected with other suspicious programs. That’s why we highly recommend you to avoid Shopping Assistant redirects, pop-up ads and other content that may show up on your computer after installing this program. Finally, we have to warn you that such potentially unwanted programs may collect your browsing habits and information, which is related to them. In most of the cases, such programs are interested in people’s search terms, mostly visited websites, data that is entered when visiting them, computer’s IP address, location and so on. After collecting such information, it may be transferred to various advertisers, including suspicious third parties. If you want to protect yourself, you should remove Shopping Assistant from your computer. You can do that by running a full system scan with Reimage.
How can Shopping Assistant hijack my computer?
In order to avoid ads by Shopping Assistant, you should know how this program travels. First of all, you can easily download it yourself. As many other adwares, Shopping Assistant virus is also promoted as a legitimate extension for your browser that should help you to save some time and money while you are buying items online. We can not guarantee that this questionable program will deliver what it promises; however, it is most likely that you will be flooded with annoying advertisements. There is also possible to install Shopping Assistant without even knowing about it. You may add this untrustworthy extension when installing unfamiliar freewares. This deceptive distribution technique is often used in order to transmit various adwares, potentially unwanted programs and similar useless extensions. That is why you need to check what programs you are downloading and if these programs have any unwanted attachments.
How to remove Shopping Assistant virus?
Technically, this program is not a virus. However, you can clearly see how this program travels around and what it seeks; therefore, you should remove Shopping Assistant from your computer. For that you can use these simple removal instructions:
You can remove virus damage automatically with a help of one of these programs: Reimage, Malwarebytes MalwarebytesCombo Cleaner, Plumbytes Anti-MalwareMalwarebytes Malwarebytes. We recommend these applications because they detect potentially unwanted programs and viruses with all their files and registry entries that are related to them.

To remove Shopping Assistant ads, follow these steps:
Uninstall Shopping Assistant from Windows systems
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Click Start → Control Panel → Programs and Features (if you are Windows XP user, click on Add/Remove Programs).
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If you are Windows 10 / Windows 8 user, then right-click in the lower left corner of the screen. Once Quick Access Menu shows up, select Control Panel and Uninstall a Program.
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Uninstall Shopping Assistant and related programs
Here, look for Shopping Assistant or any other recently installed suspicious programs. -
Uninstall them and click OK to save these changes.
Remove Shopping Assistant from Mac OS X system
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If you are using OS X, click Go button at the top left of the screen and select Applications.
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Wait until you see Applications folder and look for Shopping Assistant or any other suspicious programs on it. Now right click on every of such entries and select Move to Trash.
Eliminate Shopping Assistant from Internet Explorer (IE)
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Remove dangerous add-ons
Open Internet Explorer, click on the Gear icon (IE menu) on the top right corner of the browser and choose Manage Add-ons. -
You will see a Manage Add-ons window. Here, look for Shopping Assistant and other suspicious plugins. Disable these entries by clicking Disable:
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Change your homepage if it was altered by virus:
Click on the gear icon (menu) on the top right corner of the browser and select Internet Options. Stay in General tab. -
Here, remove malicious URL and enter preferable domain name. Click Apply to save changes.
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Reset Internet Explorer
Click on the gear icon (menu) again and select Internet options. Go to Advanced tab. - Here, select Reset.
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When in the new window, check Delete personal settings and select Reset again to complete Shopping Assistant removal.
Get rid of Shopping Assistant ads from Microsoft Edge
Reset Microsoft Edge settings (Method 1):
- Launch Microsoft Edge app and click More (three dots at the top right corner of the screen).
- Click Settings to open more options.
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Once Settings window shows up, click Choose what to clear button under Clear browsing data option.
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Here, select all what you want to remove and click Clear.
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Now you should right-click on the Start button (Windows logo). Here, select Task Manager.
- When in Processes tab, search for Microsoft Edge.
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Right-click on it and choose Go to details option. If can’t see Go to details option, click More details and repeat previous steps.
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When Details tab shows up, find every entry with Microsoft Edge name in it. Right click on each of them and select End Task to end these entries.
Resetting Microsoft Edge browser (Method 2):
If Method 1 failed to help you, you need to use an advanced Edge reset method.
- Note: you need to backup your data before using this method.
- Find this folder on your computer:
C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe.
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Select every entry which is saved on it and right click with your mouse. Then Delete option.
- Click the Start button (Windows logo) and type in window power in Search my stuff line.
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Right-click the Windows PowerShell entry and choose Run as administrator.
- Once Administrator: Windows PowerShell window shows up, paste this command line after PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> and press Enter:
Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers -Name Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register $($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml -Verbose}
Once these steps are finished, Shopping Assistant should be removed from your Microsoft Edge browser.
WindowsMac OS XInternet ExplorerMicrosoft EdgeFirefoxGoogle ChromeSafariErase Shopping Assistant from Mozilla Firefox (FF)
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Remove dangerous extensions
Open Mozilla Firefox, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Add-ons → Extensions. -
Here, select Shopping Assistant and other questionable plugins. Click Remove to delete these entries.
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Reset Mozilla Firefox
Click on the Firefox menu on the top left and click on the question mark. Here, choose Troubleshooting Information. -
Now you will see Reset Firefox to its default state message with Reset Firefox button. Click this button for several times and complete Shopping Assistant removal.
Delete Shopping Assistant from Google Chrome
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Delete malicious plugins
Open Google Chrome, click on the menu icon (top right corner) and select Tools → Extensions. -
Here, select Shopping Assistant and other malicious plugins and select trash icon to delete these entries.
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Click on menu icon again and choose Settings → Manage Search engines under the Search section.
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When in Search Engines..., remove malicious search sites. You should leave only Google or your preferred domain name.
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Reset Google Chrome
Click on menu icon on the top right of your Google Chrome and select Settings. -
Scroll down to the end of the page and click on Reset browser settings.
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Click Reset to confirm this action and complete Shopping Assistant removal.
Uninstall Shopping Assistant from Safari
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Remove dangerous extensions
Open Safari web browser and click on Safari in menu at the top left of the screen. Once you do this, select Preferences. -
Here, select Extensions and look for Shopping Assistant or other suspicious entries. Click on the Uninstall button to get rid each of them.
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Reset Safari
Open Safari browser and click on Safari in menu section at the top left of the screen. Here, select Reset Safari.... -
Now you will see a detailed dialog window filled with reset options. All of those options are usually checked, but you can specify which of them you want to reset. Click the Reset button to complete Shopping Assistant removal process.