Product Promoter Adware

What is Product Promoter?

Product Promoter is a rogue browser extension that claims to enable various features such as coupons and comparison shopping - supposedly to enhance users' Internet browsing experience. This extension may seem to provide legitimate and useful functionality, however, Product Promoter is categorized as adware.

The developers of this dubious application (SuperWeb LLC) employ a deceptive software marketing method called 'bundling' to install Product Promoter on Internet browsers without users' permission.

After successful infiltration on Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox, Product Promoter generates intrusive online advertisements and tracks users' Internet browsing activity.

These intrusive online advertisements include (but are not limited to) banner, full-page, pop-up, search, transitional, and interstitial ads. These advertisements often lead to further high-risk adware or malware infections.

Furthermore, Product Promoter collects various software and hardware information such as search queries entered into search engines (Bing, Google, Yahoo, etc.), URLs visited, pages viewed, unique identifier numbers, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (to determine users' geographic locations), and other data that may be personally identifiable.

Be aware that this behavior can result in serious privacy issues or identity theft. Product Promoter is just one of hundreds of identical potentially unwanted applications developed by SuperWeb LLC. None of these (including Product Promoter) provide any significant value for the user.

These identical browser extensions are released under different names to avoid detection by legitimate anti-spyware and anti-virus suites - their purpose is to generate revenue by the display of intrusive online advertisements and sharing collected information with third parties.

For these reasons, you are strongly advised to uninstall Product Promoter from your Internet browsers.

Product Promoter is mostly distributed via small programs called 'download clients' on freeware download websites such as download.com, softonic.com, soft32.com, and many others.

Download clients are employed by these websites to monetize their free services and traffic by offering installation of advertised (according to the developers, '100% legitimate and virus-free') applications or browser add-ons together with the chosen free software.

Thus, reckless download and installation of freeware often results in adware or malware infections. To avoid installation of Product Promoter, or other similar PUPs, follow each step when downloading free software to ensure that no other applications are being installed together with it.

Furthermore, when installing downloaded software, select the 'Advanced' or 'Custom' installation options, rather than 'Quick' or 'Typical' - this will reveal any hidden applications listed for installation and allow you to decline them.

If your system is infected with Product Promoter, and you observe intrusive online advertisements, follow the removal guide below to uninstall this adware from your system immediately.

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Quick menu:

• What is Product Promoter?
• STEP 1. Uninstall Product Promoter application using Control Panel.
• STEP 2. Remove Product Promoter adware from Internet Explorer.
• STEP 3. Remove Product Promoter ads from Google Chrome.
• STEP 4. Remove 'Ads by Product Promoter' from Mozilla Firefox.
• STEP 5. Remove Product Promoter extension from Safari.
• STEP 6. Remove rogue plug-ins from Microsoft Edge.

Product Promoter adware removal:

Windows 11 users:

Right-click on the Start icon, select Apps and Features. In the opened window search for the application you want to uninstall, after locating it, click on the three vertical dots and select Uninstall.

Windows 10 users:

Right-click in the lower left corner of the screen, in the Quick Access Menu select Control Panel. In the opened window choose Programs and Features.

Windows 7 users:

Click Start (Windows Logo at the bottom left corner of your desktop), choose Control Panel. Locate Programs and click Uninstall a program.

macOS (OSX) users:

Click Finder, in the opened screen select Applications. Drag the app from the Applications folder to the Trash (located in your Dock), then right click the Trash icon and select Empty Trash.

In the uninstall programs window, look for "Product Promoter", select this entry and click "Uninstall" or "Remove".

After uninstalling the potentially unwanted program that causes Product Promoter ads, scan your computer for any remaining unwanted components or possible malware infections. To scan your computer, use recommended malware removal software.

Remove Product Promoter adware from Internet browsers:

Video showing how to remove potentially unwanted browser add-ons:

Remove malicious add-ons from Internet Explorer:

Click the "gear" icon (at the top right corner of Internet Explorer), select "Manage Add-ons". Look for "Product Promoter", select this entry and click "Remove".

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the ads by product promoter, reset your Internet Explorer settings to default.

Windows XP users: Click Start, click Run, in the opened window type inetcpl.cpl In the opened window click the Advanced tab, then click Reset.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 users: Click the Windows logo, in the start search box type inetcpl.cpl and click enter. In the opened window click the Advanced tab, then click Reset.

Windows 8 users: Open Internet Explorer and click the gear icon. Select Internet Options.

In the opened window, select the Advanced tab.

Click the Reset button.

Confirm that you wish to reset Internet Explorer settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Remove malicious extensions from Google Chrome:

Click the Chrome menu icon (at the top right corner of Google Chrome), select "Tools" and click "Extensions". Locate "Product Promoter", select this entry and click the trash can icon.

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the ads by product promoter, reset your Google Chrome browser settings. Click the Chrome menu icon  (at the top right corner of Google Chrome) and select Settings. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen. Click the Advanced… link.

After scrolling to the bottom of the screen, click the Reset (Restore settings to their original defaults) button.

In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Google Chrome settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

Remove malicious plugins from Mozilla Firefox:

Click the Firefox menu (at the top right corner of the main window), select "Add-ons". Click "Extensions", in the opened window, remove "Product Promoter".

Optional method:

Computer users who have problems with ads by product promoter removal can reset their Mozilla Firefox settings.

Open Mozilla Firefox, at the top right corner of the main window, click the Firefox menu, in the opened menu, click Help.

Select Troubleshooting Information.

In the opened window, click the Refresh Firefox button.

In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Mozilla Firefox settings to default by clicking the Refresh Firefox button.

Remove malicious extensions from Safari:

Make sure your Safari browser is active, click Safari menu, and select Preferences....

In the opened window click Extensions, locate any recently installed suspicious extension, select it and click Uninstall.

Optional method:

Make sure your Safari browser is active and click on Safari menu. From the drop down menu select Clear History and Website Data...

In the opened window select all history and click the Clear History button.

Remove malicious extensions from Microsoft Edge:

Click the Edge menu icon  (at the upper-right corner of Microsoft Edge), select "Extensions". Locate all recently-installed suspicious browser add-ons and click "Remove" below their names.

Optional method:

If you continue to have problems with removal of the ads by product promoter, reset your Microsoft Edge browser settings. Click the Edge menu icon  (at the top right corner of Microsoft Edge) and select Settings.

In the opened settings menu select Reset settings.

Select Restore settings to their default values. In the opened window, confirm that you wish to reset Microsoft Edge settings to default by clicking the Reset button.

• If this did not help, follow these alternative instructions explaining how to reset the Microsoft Edge browser.

Summary:

Commonly, adware or potentially unwanted applications infiltrate Internet browsers through free software downloads. Note that the safest source for downloading free software is via developers' websites only. To avoid installation of adware, be very attentive when downloading and installing free software. When installing previously-downloaded free programs, choose the custom or advanced installation options – this step will reveal any potentially unwanted applications listed for installation together with your chosen free program.

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